Bad ABS control module. Thinking about removing ABS system?????
Road Warrior
Joined: Oct 2008
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From: Denham Springs, La
See if the dealer can turn off the ABS light or just deal with it being on all the time. Get new wheel spacers if you ever have to change bearings and go with non ABS bearings?
PS: You can't ask "Why not just go old school with the brakes?" and then say "no preaching". Preaching is generally how those kind of questions get answered around here.
Welcome to the forum.
PS: You can't ask "Why not just go old school with the brakes?" and then say "no preaching". Preaching is generally how those kind of questions get answered around here.
Welcome to the forum.
Last edited by smithbrl; Aug 16, 2015 at 03:43 PM.
Stage I
Joined: Oct 2015
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From: Ducktown, TN
Make a report to NHTSA, Harley needs to recall these modules. Sometimes it's the front lever, sometimes the rear pedal. No warning when it will happen. Remember, dead bikers cannot file reports.
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From: Oklahoma
Pulling the ABS fuse will give you non-ABS (regular brakes) UNTIL that one killer malfunction happens, the frozen lever or pedal. For that possibility alone I refuse Harley ABS until it is redesigned. If your bike won't go, that's bad. If it won't STOP, that is a disaster!
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From: Oklahoma
If the ABS module hydraulic lock malfunction is new to you, you don't visit the forums often enough. There are several reports a year of the lever or pedal becoming rock hard and no pressure is sent to the caliper resulting in no brake. The pressure from the lever or pedal is stopped at the ABS module by a valve malfunction. It is serious enough to have ABS die and you unexpectedly skid a tire but brake loss is even more serious. It has been happening for several years. As of now there has been no recall but many believe there should be.
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From: South Florida
If the ABS module hydraulic lock malfunction is new to you, you don't visit the forums often enough. There are several reports a year of the lever or pedal becoming rock hard and no pressure is sent to the caliper resulting in no brake. The pressure from the lever or pedal is stopped at the ABS module by a valve malfunction. It is serious enough to have ABS die and you unexpectedly skid a tire but brake loss is even more serious. It has been happening for several years. As of now there has been no recall but many
believe there should be.
believe there should be.
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Joined: May 2008
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From: Newcastle, Ca.
If the ABS module hydraulic lock malfunction is new to you, you don't visit the forums often enough. There are several reports a year of the lever or pedal becoming rock hard and no pressure is sent to the caliper resulting in no brake. The pressure from the lever or pedal is stopped at the ABS module by a valve malfunction. It is serious enough to have ABS die and you unexpectedly skid a tire but brake loss is even more serious. It has been happening for several years. As of now there has been no recall but many believe there should be.
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To each their own but if it were me, I'd anti-up to replace it - I'd try and buy the part thru Surdyke or someplace and then pay a local mechanic to install and bleed the brakes...I love my anti-lock brakes