I started and finished the replacement of my passenger side hub (and ABS sensor) today, in total about 2 hours for the hub replacement and another hour performing an "option B" wiring of the ABS block. I now have a fully functioning ABS/TC/HDC system on my Discovery 2. When I bought this Disco about a year ago it was throwing about 16 codes related to the engine and the ABS system and I've now got that down to zero codes. A good day indeed.
In all the only real pain in the ass was the little helper screw on the rotor, someone had stripped out the Philips head and I had to drill it and use a screw extractor. The 360# nut came off with a predictable amount of brute force (in part me, standing on a very long wrench handle and hopping). I was able to use the nut again because no one had bother to crimp it. This is great because the replacement I was sent wasn't the same size as the original and I don't like that.
Option B on the ABS block was easy enough, I soldered my wires and use heat shrink to tidy it all up. Immediate satisfaction and something else I should have simply done some time ago (when I replaced the shuttle valves) vs. trying to make a poorly designed system function as designed.
Thanks to everyone who replied to the two other posts related to the ABS system and this hub replacement over the last few weeks. It was fun to let the Discovery guide us down the neighborhood "big hill" today. The timing is great, we're taking the truck on a 9 hour drive to Louisiana in two weeks where we have access to a few hundred acres of forest trails in hilly country.
In all the only real pain in the ass was the little helper screw on the rotor, someone had stripped out the Philips head and I had to drill it and use a screw extractor. The 360# nut came off with a predictable amount of brute force (in part me, standing on a very long wrench handle and hopping). I was able to use the nut again because no one had bother to crimp it. This is great because the replacement I was sent wasn't the same size as the original and I don't like that.
Option B on the ABS block was easy enough, I soldered my wires and use heat shrink to tidy it all up. Immediate satisfaction and something else I should have simply done some time ago (when I replaced the shuttle valves) vs. trying to make a poorly designed system function as designed.
Thanks to everyone who replied to the two other posts related to the ABS system and this hub replacement over the last few weeks. It was fun to let the Discovery guide us down the neighborhood "big hill" today. The timing is great, we're taking the truck on a 9 hour drive to Louisiana in two weeks where we have access to a few hundred acres of forest trails in hilly country.
