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#4172
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Ebay or Rockauto for ABS sensors. I've done all 4 at around $20/corner. Only issue I've had was the sensor itself being too long on the metal tip causing air gaps on the tone right to be too tight (should be somewhere around the thickness of a credit card). Quick minute with a file fixes that. Well worth the $800+ saved not buying new OEM.
#4173
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Ebay or Rockauto for ABS sensors. I've done all 4 at around $20/corner. Only issue I've had was the sensor itself being too long on the metal tip causing air gaps on the tone right to be too tight (should be somewhere around the thickness of a credit card). Quick minute with a file fixes that. Well worth the $800+ saved not buying new OEM.
https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...ed+sensor,1912
a lot of sensors on this list. if you look under standard replacements, the rears climb in price quite a bit, WVE being the first option. May go that route.
Last edited by kyoo; Jan 31, 2022 at 06:45 AM.
#4176
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I heard about the filing down thing. I guess my only concern is reliability/longevity. The rear uprights block the abs sensors, and I haven't looked if I can get behind it to remove the arm portion to swap a sensor, or if I will need to pull things apart to do so
https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...ed+sensor,1912
a lot of sensors on this list. if you look under standard replacements, the rears climb in price quite a bit, WVE being the first option. May go that route.
https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/...ed+sensor,1912
a lot of sensors on this list. if you look under standard replacements, the rears climb in price quite a bit, WVE being the first option. May go that route.
I don't see a concern about longevity. All these sensors are is a small electromagnet. Just a winding of fine copper around a steel rod. There's nothing in them that moves or wears down over time.
#4177
FWIW, the ABS sensor gap isnt too critical. My first batch of uprights (the ones I paid to have machined) I miss-measured the spacing accidentally getting the gap of the clearance hole and not the bearing bore and was off by 0.060". The tone ring ended up just filing down the tip on its own so the gap was pretty much 0. Then I made a shim for people to fix that and it now right by my sensor was "ground down". Neither situation gave me a ABS warning light. Still have the same sensors on my car and on a 4th version of uprights (Prototypes, V1, Radial, V2)
#4178
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how do i add more grease? should i use something like this? or do i need something with a needle? car is at a friends, i can't look at it closely at the moment. i have some bearing/cv grease, i assume it's the same stuff.
re: the sensors, i assume there's some kind of quality difference between a 40 dollar piece and a 240 dollar piece.
re: dallas's msg on it being ground down on the car, that is interesting. i'd prob take a file to it if it was too long anyway just to add a little space there.
#4179
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i dont think it's a matter of thickness though? no matter how thick it is, eventually it presses up against the bushing and spindle until it gets forced out. obviously the bushing is squeezed when that happens.
how do i add more grease? should i use something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Frienda-Scien...s%2C104&sr=8-3 or do i need something with a needle? car is at a friends, i can't look at it closely at the moment. i have some bearing/cv grease, i assume it's the same stuff.
how do i add more grease? should i use something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Frienda-Scien...s%2C104&sr=8-3 or do i need something with a needle? car is at a friends, i can't look at it closely at the moment. i have some bearing/cv grease, i assume it's the same stuff.
you cant get this from autozone
#4180
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not sure if youre talking about the balljoint or bushing. the thinner separators dont squish the boots
you cant get this from autozone
https://www.amazon.com/Prolube-44880...131677819&th=1
you cant get this from autozone
https://www.amazon.com/Prolube-44880...131677819&th=1
#4181
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The balljoint separator should not be squeezing the boots. You need to push the boot out of the way. Any generic balljoint grease will be fine. The boot is just retained by friction, you can pry them off with a flathead screw driver and toss more grease in, they don't need a ton either. The bottom of the boot has a steel reinforcement ring to pry on to keep from tearing the boot.
#4182
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yea the boots, sorry. i see though, this part has a cut out to preserve the boot a little better.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ME9NG8SJ&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...ME9NG8SJ&psc=1
#4183
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The balljoint separator should not be squeezing the boots. You need to push the boot out of the way. Any generic balljoint grease will be fine. The boot is just retained by friction, you can pry them off with a flathead screw driver and toss more grease in, they don't need a ton either. The bottom of the boot has a steel reinforcement ring to pry on to keep from tearing the boot.