Chevy ABS????

Magnum

Should be Huntin
A few months ago I bought an 04 Suburban first truck with ABS. I thought something felt funny, it was very hard to get the truck stopped :shrug: My 89 would stop on a dime. So I figured it was normal, that it was the computer doing it's job. Well this morning I was down in VA, I stopped at a WAWA turned off the truck. When I turned it back on my ABS light came on. I drove it around the parking lot, backed up 20feet and hit the brakes like you have to do with the old style... Light was still on :confused: I turned off the truck popped the hood to check the fluid and I heard something. Sounded like a fuel pump motor, crawled under the truck and there is a pump with a bunch of brake lines running. I checked my fluid, it's ok, I figure pull the ground and let everything reset. After I sat 20 min with it off I put it back on, pump came right back on. I decided to take it for a road test to see if I was going to make it home..... The truck stopped better than ever. I drove like 50 miles with the ABS light on now I am home... with the ground off my truck to try to save the pump from burning up.

Anyone every mess with ABS? Screwy sensor? Pump Shot?
 

dave1959

Active Member
The ABS system and the regular brake systems are complety independent of each other. It sounds like you may have more than one problem. If the ABS fails your brakes will still work properly, they will not have the ABS function. If your truck is hard to stop that would be another issue.
 
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