| Author | Message | ||
     Roger Fastring (Fastring) Member Username: Fastring Post Number: 49 Registered: 02-2003 |
For all of us with ABS fuses pulled out and brakes that wont lock up, anyone actually removed the ABS pump and swapped in a 'x' that converts it to non-ABS but with more pressure so that the brakes work better than they do now with the ABS fuse pulled? | ||
| Frank Battersby (Frank84) New Member Username: Frank84 Post Number: 7 Registered: 10-2003 |
and how about for those of us with DII's? | ||
| Milan (Milan) Senior Member Username: Milan Post Number: 289 Registered: 10-2002 |
I will do it eventually. However, my brakes seem to have the same pressure (if you can call it that) with or without ABS (my ABS is functioning flawlessly, I just happend to despise it). | ||
| Bill Bettridge (Billb) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Billb Post Number: 1213 Registered: 02-2002 |
On my short list of things to do. If you have a genuine workshop manual it shows the hydraulic ciruit for both ABS and non-ABS trucks and the conversion is pretty easy. Your proportioning valve has a blanking plug in one port that would get used for a NON-ABS setup. Other than that, you'd have to convert the double rear line to a single (easy - blank one port and drill the "T" fitting all the way through) and then do a little new line bending. Bill | ||
| John Kruger (Johnnyk) Member Username: Johnnyk Post Number: 246 Registered: 02-2002 |
someone should write this up as a tech report. giving the play by play on all the wrench turning. John | ||
| eric johnson (Eric2) Member Username: Eric2 Post Number: 140 Registered: 05-2003 |
If you eliminate the ABS, doesn't that eliminate the ETC? How are the two related, if at all? | ||
| Alyssa Brown (Alyssa) Senior Member Username: Alyssa Post Number: 302 Registered: 01-2003 |
Eric, They are talking about Series 1 Discovery. That doesn't have ETC or HDC. In a Series II, ABS, HDC, and ETC are all linked. | ||
| Milan (Milan) Senior Member Username: Milan Post Number: 291 Registered: 10-2002 |
Bill, when I was looking at it last year I think one could leave the double line in there. I thought there was an extra port on the combination valve. Either that or I was thinking a T off of the valve rather than replumbing. Though I may do it anyway as I think it's "cleaner" to run just one line. | ||
| Bill Bettridge (Billb) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Billb Post Number: 1214 Registered: 02-2002 |
Milan, - you could leave the double rear line, but it would require to also out a TEE in the front half also. Just more fittings to deal with. For me a single rear line would be OK and would not require buying anything else. Yep - the extra plugged port on the proportioning valve gets used for one of the circuits (can't remember which off hand). The plug you remove from that can be used to plug the extra port on the rear TEE also (damn am I cheap  ) Then ebay your pump and ABS sensors and you've made money on the deal! Hope to get around to it this winter. Bill | ||
| Milan (Milan) Senior Member Username: Milan Post Number: 292 Registered: 10-2002 |
Same line of thinking here. |
