Come on lads! Surely someone knows what those fault codes mean. I cant see the point of a diagnostic tool that can only tell me the brakes don't work when its pretty obvious when pulling that lever on the handlebars. This bikes 11 years old, I cant be the 1st person to need this info. Haha! There's not some funny handshake thing going on here that I don't know about is there?
iabs failure
- Thread starter oaktree
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cele0001
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iABS is unfixable. Take it out and enjoy long happy life.
I've finally got round to stripping the servo unit out. A surprisingly easy job but I've got a few updates for anyone wanting to do the same. I've got braided lines on an 1150 gsa which I found didn't have enough flexibility to make a straight joint together by adapting the existing front distribution bracket so I made up a loop that went where the pipes went off to and returned from the servo unit leaving the braided lines connected as they were. A pipe flaring kit costs under 30 quid and that was the only cost or buy the bit from Nippy Norms I think or get a garage to make one up. I cut the threaded ends off the redundant servo pipes and reused them. When I got the servo unit out I drilled off the 4 heads of the bolts retaining the multi pin control unit (servo brain) and eased it off the servo body. There's 2 ribbon connectors and 4 other wires going to the servo body. Disconnect these and just tuck them in to the body of the brain. I cut up an old plastic number plate and silicone sealed it to the brain body,(3 bits due to the odd shape) Mount this where the servo unit was and plug the multi pin connector back in, dont worry about the 2 plugs that came off the top of the servo unit, leave them dangling. Remove the blue relay from the fuse block, that stops the abs light actuating. Pull the bulb out from the back of the dash that lights the triangular warning light. Its only a friction fit and the easiest one to get to but still a fiddle. The back brake is easy, just connect the braided hose from the caliper straight to the foot pedal master cylinder, it just reaches. Again I think with a standard gs the brake lines aren't braided which allows more flexibility. Bleed the brakes all round and fire her up! Easy peasy. No messing about cutting into the loom, plug and play.
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