ABS sensor continues to cause issues
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From: NoVA
Interesting fact that codes are related to the switches which are "opposite each other" - "TC" switch is leftmost and "Run/Stop" is rightmost but same location on the controls. Do you still have your old bars (with harnesses), if so you can put them back on and see if the problem goes away.
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I wish people would just start these threads with, "I changed my handlebars and now...."
This seems completely unrelated to ABS sensor like the title said. OP just wants to disable the ABS instead of troubleshooting... SMH
This seems completely unrelated to ABS sensor like the title said. OP just wants to disable the ABS instead of troubleshooting... SMH
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From: SE SC
I read the post and giving a guy EASY options to troubleshoot and perhaps avoid troubles down the line doesn't hurt a thing.
Ever come up on a problem and somebody smarter than you go's, "hey, did you try this?"....
I'm sure you haven't, but others sometimes DO like different ideas on how to approach things.
Lighten up, Frances......
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Well, to make a long story short. I am attributing my ECM and other issues to my changing my handlebars. After cleaning all connections, pulling the front wheel to check out the ABS sensor and putting it all back together, I started the bike and when I turned the bars to a sharp right, The check engine light came back on with a couple other codes. I was thinking that seeing it happened when making a sharp right-hand turn, it was still a wiring issue. I rerouted all the wires from the new handlebars and used VERY FEWER wire ties. It has not happened since so HOPEFULLY? Thanks for all the leads. Between reading these and searching on the interned, they all led me closer to the problems for all the leads
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From: NoVA
Well, to make a long story short. I am attributing my ECM and other issues to my changing my handlebars. After cleaning all connections, pulling the front wheel to check out the ABS sensor and putting it all back together, I started the bike and when I turned the bars to a sharp right, The check engine light came back on with a couple other codes. I was thinking that seeing it happened when making a sharp right-hand turn, it was still a wiring issue. I rerouted all the wires from the new handlebars and used VERY FEWER wire ties. It has not happened since so HOPEFULLY? Thanks for all the leads. Between reading these and searching on the interned, they all led me closer to the problems for all the leads
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My 23 Road King has gone into limp mode a couple times. For a quick band aid, to get home, removing the big fuse, then re-installing it seems to reset the throttle problem. Each time this happened, codes for front and rear ABS sensors were set. At the moment, my theory is that the ABS codes were caused by an electrical glitch, but they did not cause the glitch. Early on, I changed the obnoxious factory clutch cable for the previous style last used on a '16 or '17 vintage, before the hydraulic fiasco. The factory cable was intricately routed inside the headlight nacelle. I had to disassemble the nacelle and disconnect some wiring to get the old cable out. The last time it went into limp mode, I cleaned each of those plugs, so far so good. The ABS works flawlessly until the next limp mode happens. The moral of the story is that ABS sensor codes MAY be set by a momentary electrical interruption, but still have no actual failure. Time will tell.
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