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All right, folks, we are inside the 2014 chevrolet, it's the traverse. It's got the big three six in it. That's got the chubby rubber, the leather, the hole in the roof and apparently a whole bunch of lights on and it won't move. She said this lady uh texted me a picture of her dashboard.

Yesterday he had an abs traction this that and the other thing on and said she can't get it to go over 40 mphs and i asked her if it acted like the traction. Control was kicking on and she agreed that it didn't there. We go service stability, track service, traction control, abs, so we're gon na. Let it get hooked up to the uh i'll tell here.

I assume it has a magnet that has come apart on a wheel bearing and it's uh make sure everything turned off here and that's what's giving her fit. So that's what we're gon na find out you and i, as soon as we get this all locked in we'll, take it for a little shake and just see if it needs a wheel. Bearing see here, we got our serviceability track. Traction control off.

I think you know once we start our abs light will be on battery low just about done scanning for us here. So there's all of our lights. Oh, we've got a heck of a glare here outside the sunshine, we'll go to our report and we'll see if it just tells us which wheel we're going to be looking at right, rear possibility. So we're going to go right into the brake control module and i'm going to get some data and we're going to take a first shake down and see if the right rear is being erratic.

And if it is we'll put on the lift and a lot of times more often than not, you can find these just with visual inspections. We might not even have to get fancy so we're going to look at the right rear. Actually, we'll just look at all of them, because i think we can do a graph merge there we go so now we have all of them on the screen, we'll slow that down a little bit, we'll full screen that baby. I know you got the glare it's terrible, but let me get us moved here, we'll see.

If it starts acting up on us, you would think with it being disabled. Then it wouldn't be kicking on here, but traction control on. Look it fixed itself, but look down here and it's still broken. So whatever one is our light.

Green trace is going super erratic and that is the right rear wheel. I think it says yeah right, rear wheel, yeah that one's going crazy all wheel drive off it. Hmm, i'm says it's not throwing abs lights, because this thing's going - oh, it's gon na spoke too soon here, mr oh, so there we go now it's going cray-cray on us, but all right. Well, we at least know we can tell by looking at this that, like i say, the light green tracer is obviously crazy.

Probably is just a broken magnet, let's see what would we say the right rear? Can we see them? Oh yes, sir, i can see. Let's see i'm gon na shine in there and hence enhance see if i can hold you guys still, so you see the bolt on the bottom of the screen there right above it that magnetic strip so shiny, shiny, shiny, real shiny, there's, a magnet. I think there's only one small piece left and it's right there, so it's starting so there's the magnet, magnet, magnet and then back to shiny right by the bolt head. So the magnet so watch that bolt head there that little magnet stripping goes from there to there and then the rest of it's all broke off and shiny, so it must have just uh fallen off on her and uh.
It's not too big a deal. Usually, when one of them goes on these chevys all the other wheel brakes right behind it, because if i remember correctly, these take the same wheel bearing front and rear. So you can see on this one right there, let's see, find the speed sensor here for you and hence so there's the tip of the speed sensor comes in and the magnetic wheel on the back of the wheel. Bearing is the trigger wheel, active type, wheel, speed sensor, so super duper common on these, so let's get a wheel bearing coming and get after.

It should have all the tools we need now. I think, except the hammer uh 34, mil on that little guy, i'm gon na take the little torx bit out here and it's probably a 15 or so with that not a 15 or so probably a 30 or so looks a little buggered up there see if It wants to play nice and it does so we'll leave that right in the socket for the time being, let's see if we can take a little tension off our caliper here, we'll pull it off with the whole bracket and everything. So that's all wiggly. I think that's the 21 back here.

Yes, sir, not a lot of room, though let's see get up in here, ratchet's going the wrong way, of course, that one's loose i got ta get the top kelp or bracket bolt here that didn't help. Ah, that must have been like 7 000 foot pounds of torque that one's loose, getting the old screamos, probably the most iconic sound in a repair shop. So there's that our calipers off we're letting her hang by the hose. Of course, you guys can't see crap anyways fail.

I need a hook for the hook there make all the internet worrywarts feel better, even though it's still hanging by the hose, because some people get awfully worried about things, it's not really dangling by the host. Folks, let's be honest, there's that wow she must be, must be. She had a fresh break job because things are too loose. Shoes are good, they look like they've been replaced.

Typically, i need little chibis, you uh, take the rotor off and the brake shoes fall off. So these must have been recently done. We're going to have to see if we can't beat the axle loose so i'll make sure that's loose before we get too far and then we're going to go back on the back side. I didn't get any sockets for that.

I don't know what size they are them. They feel like. 18 they're, not 21.. So that's what they must be.

Let's get this moving. First, oh, brooks brooks usa for winch, don't move she moves. Now. Baby looks like there are three bolts back yeah.
They are the 18 mil there's one we got crack loose. I don't think you guys will be able to see the other one, but it's just like this one, just in a different spot and they're kind of tricky they're not tricky to get to they're just tricky to record. So you have to use your imagination. You have to go to your imagination station for a minute and kind of envision me getting after a couple bolts here.

I'll show you head on this one's kind of buggered up truck whack. It don't happen to it, but whatever but not least, you got this fella here. I don't know. If your ratchet is the most iconic sound, maybe it used to be no.

It's just batteries everybody's got battery battery powered i'm old school air tool. Guy myself, i do have battery powered tools, but uh in in my shop. They just they just don't hold up as long they're, great they're, powerful they're, sometimes more powerful than the air, but they do not like falling off the tool. Cart.

So i broke a lot of the tools just because they're plastic - and you know they get used on a daily use in a real shop. They get used and abused quite a bit and dropped and knocked over. You know fall off shelves and stuff and they take quite a bit. I'll be honest, i mean you can drop them a whole lot of times before they finally say no, sir, i'm done i got ta put this back in a little bit.

I'm stuck this throws stuck in the hole, let's see if we can't uh do something like that. There we go, and then i found that the air tools they just last long. I've had this little ratchet. I can't tell you how long a lot of years 21 millimeter will not fit in 18..

Still, no matter how hard you try. So i'm thinking we're going to cheat a little bit here, because i know you will sit back here and beat your living brains out. Getting these things up, we're going to take chop off a wheel, stud i'm out of cutting disc, because i got one that's too small. I don't feel like putting in a new one.

Let's see we'll pick up our broken piece because we didn't bring over a punch. So we'll use this there's that, hopefully i'm opening and praying that sucker will come out of there tada i did fell down in there. We're not worried about it. Yet it's down in here, okay, this may or may not work we're gon na give it the old college.

Try technically, we should take the parking brake shoes off, but we're just gon na kind of scooch them over a little for the time being we're not going to worry about our broken piece, but we'll get it we're going to use our little astro tool last chance Hub tool here, slash nut and bolt with a little presser foot on the end of it, um we're going to take that brake shoe off, which isn't that big a deal. I suppose, at the end of the day, unless your pliers don't line up here, friggin junk yeah touch them up on the grinder must have a little weld slag on them from something oh wait, a minute. Oh i see they don't close. All of me shows this.
Guy running, let's try these ones, so i get all that spring is off, get that one unhitched, let's get our nail out of here. Goodness gracious that thing's got a lot of pressure on it. Usually you can just push these in pretty lightly. There we go.

I do have a tool for this, but these springs are pretty light. We're gon na take our nail and spring out of the way. Now we'll get our broken piece out, and now we can get our fingers back in here. We can just leave the top spring on.

We don't want to take the extra five seconds to take that off, but we're gon na sometimes that make poor decisions. You guys get to see it. We think like yeah, we'll save not time just take it off. Get your adjuster, don't let that baby fall on the floor.

Take your shoe off now. We can do it the right way. There's the other piece for the adjuster, don't lose anything instead of being a ding-dong. So stick this in here and then in a perfect world.

Oh boy he's going to be pushing cockeyed it's going to tear off our threads. I wonder if we use the smaller bolt comes with two bolts. I didn't put any lubrication on it, so that's not good. Let's use the smaller one here.

I think we can get down lower in the hole and push a little more evenly get this sucker to pop. That's all. We need just get her to crack loose out of the knuckle here. That might push a little more.

Even oh! No! It's not it's going to be nasty. It's going to be nasty i'll! Tell you what sitting here is like a bunch of ding dongs rotator down here, where we have a bigger surface area, we're back to plan a with the bigger bolt connect like an animal. Now we can stick the little foot on. It probably should lubricate the threads, but this shouldn't take a couple little toots, because we have a tremendous amount of force now to crack this bearing loose.

Now you guys watch the rain man down to florida. He takes some bolts out and goes like this wiggle wiggle and the hub falls off. Sometimes he gets some junk down there too. I just laugh and laugh.

Kaboom goes a weasel baby. So now that we've got it crack lacking like i said you can sit there and beat the living tar out of these and they don't budge. We want to get the bearing out the rest away. It might be loose enough to just attack.

So that's how you want to be huh so flip her over. You guys can't see, move your hose. Keep your tootsies out of the way, that's how they do it. As far as, however, you can see the dilemma here, it's just you know typical salt rust, corrosion junk.

So using that tool allows you to push against something. You know snap the hub loose, don't even try just sitting here, you know beating on it first and it's not, it says last chance, but they should call it first choice here they are folks uh, two nuts, two bolts, two different sizes, two little feet to push Against they have a ball bearing in the end of them to guide that probably should lubricate the threads. Let's be honest, i'm not a good representative of these, but i've used them a lot. It's classic.
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Super duper cheap, keep them in your toolbox. I have several sets here because you're gon na gnar them up eventually, because not every one of them, you can push straight and uh. We'll just say things happen and also to answer other questions. You know some guys will say what you know.

Why didn't i take off two wheel, studs and push evenly and this and that and then in fantasyland that works great, because you've got two areas across from each other that you can push against. It goes and it pops off nice and even but in the rust belt we don't care, we just need it to crack loose. You just need it to move. You know just a scouch just barely move, then you can take it off the rest of the way.

So i'll push an even great. If that's your cup of tea, take two studs out, you know, do it nice and even we just get after it, wow. Ah so spritzer down with some of the film. Oh, let's put the old one over here.

We can now clearly see the magnet it's only from here to here. Most of it's missing. Here's your wheel, speed, sensor right there, which reads the magnetic tone ring which, on the new bearing from napper, not a sponsor, is right here and it's in good shape. So we will take our freshly locked tightened bolts, try to line up a couple of them just hold stuff still for us, a bunch of parking brake actuators, there's a good time to fix any of your parking brake business.

If that's all gabash we're going to line her up on the splines of the axle we're going to line up in the hole, then we're going to line up a couple of these bolts get them started. There's that now get the third one started we'll draw her up. It should slide in the whole easy, so don't draw draw it up. Like i said to try to force it in there, you have to get the corrosion out.

You should be able to easily push the bearing in which - which i just did so now that they're snugged we lightly have them in there with the air ratchet i'm going to look up the torque specs, of course, and we're going to go through and tighten them Up and torque them completely to factory specs and then we'll do our axle nut. We'll get our brake shoes back on here, guy josh. He does a lot of lots of great jobs way more than i do anymore. So put that up there we'll get our cup on there get this on there we'll give her a push and a turn and now she's stuck on there permanently, and then we will find all the adjuster we're going to put a little bit of lube in that, Because i did get some dirt on and i wiped off the dirt which in turn, wiped off the lube, i'm just going to stick a little bit of brake caliper, grease down inside the hole now that anybody ever adjusts these and or uses them.
It's just. We need it for our state inspection, so that's the only time we have to fix it. For customers is once a year we got ta get their parking brake working. I thought that spring is well heavy duty for up top there.

We go, oh as bad. You want to reach in there with your fingers, don't do it cause she'll get ya there. She is stupid, design, huh and i do understand it's kind of clever how they use the spring to hold the hold the adjuster from. Turning like.

I understand the concept, but you know what i'm saying: there's the die, hard chevy guys out there and i'm not uh, not partial, really to any brand i've on saturday i don't care about cars or when i drive as long as it's, not a dodger, chevy or Ford and uh say that out loud, no honestly, folks, i don't care we pick on everything they're all jumped when they're broke. That's what i'll tell you even toyotas, even behind us when they're broke they're junk the inside of the rotor is clean on the hat side, where it's going to sit up against the hub, so we just want to slip it on. Oh, we will find our little screw here, we'll put a little screwy back in here and then we're gon na go through and make sure our adjustment is good on our parking brake put shoes caliper on put the bolt on or the nut torque it down. So i'm gon na reach in we're just gon na click down on the star wheel.

I say try not to go too far because it is kind of a pain in the butt to back it back off. But the spring rolls around on you way too tight again, i'm just flicking it down, make it too tight make sure the ends didn't fall off. She looks golden and it does look like i'm using a lot of effort to turn it because we're turning the wheel on the opposite side through the powertrain. You know, while it's in neutral the scraping noise you're hearing is fine until it isn't.

But it's good trust me a little bit of rust inside there one very light uganda! That's good enough on that on. Just like that, i need a nap we're going to slide our caliper and bracket back on here, good time to service the brakes uh. If you notice that the pads are seizing in the brackets or anything like that, we did put a little bit of the lock tight on the bolts here. So we'll get these in.

I'm gon na get the factory specs we'll get these tightened up and same thing for the axle number if they actually not put on. I think that was 150 and some change 151 foot-pounds. Something like that. So we'll get that torqued down and then we're going to take it for a shake and see if we fixed it.
Let's see time for a shakedown backer outside i'll have to go through and get our data back up on the screen here. Let's just see if that wheel's working yeah it is working so we'll go, show selected and then we're going to do. Um craft merge, we'll slow it down a little bit here. Let's go for a rep, we'll probably go through and clear the lights too, but at least this way we can tell what's working and what's not, i think we're gon na be in good shape until already just driving through the parking lot here that we have all.

Four speed sensors coming up now that you guys can see there's gon na be some differential between them. Now, because i'm going around a circle when we get out here on the flats, i can't see crap. So i know you guys can't see crap. Let me get out here where we got no glare: let's go the other direction.

All of our lights turned off on their own. So that's good! Oh there we go. We got that we got ta, we got ta go the other way, so we can get the sun behind us. Then we can see what we're doing there we go.

Now we can see now everybody can see everybody's happy, but everything's good. All four wheels going up evenly with each other. No one wanted abs activation. None of that stuff all right, so she should be happy.

That's it we're done show's over we're back on here we're back in the shop i'm going to. Let it go through. Read the codes i do want to clear the codes out of it, so nobody sees them in the future and uh whatever so anyhow codes are clearing. Codes are now cleared.

I'm happy you're happy this lady's gon na be happy. We can let her know it wasn't major and uh. I think. That's it folks.

So um check out the i'll try to remember to put a link there for that last chance. Slash first chance hub removal tools, slash nut and bolt business there from the astro tools. Get yourself some uh super helpful beats the heck out of just trying to smash the hell out of that hub. You know you miss you, hit the backing plate, you're, trying all different methods.

It's just the way to go. It's the bee's knees as they say. It's the tunas fish. I just made that up.

I don't know if anybody says that, but they do work well. You'll use them you'll, destroy them if you're working in a shop and use them all the time. But if you're at home - and you don't have you know - you don't want to use the hub buster or any of the other gimmicky stuff out there. These work - and i mean you've, seen it i've used them.

I've showed them in lots of videos. So enough talking comment section, the questions, the concerns, the insti, the facebook and just remember viewers. If i can do it, you can do it thanks for watching hey.

By EricO

12 thoughts on “Chevy traverse: won’t go over 40mph abs stability light on”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Puder McGavin says:

    Battery tools have their place, but if you need to get quick action from the trigger they suck. And no Mac/DeWalt impacts are fragile as hell!

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sicktrickintuner says:

    I literally just did one of these on a 2013 acadia. Same thing. Wheel bearing speed sensor fell off. Junk design

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ibigstick76 says:

    try a bolt back in the old bearing and put the wheel on with two lug nuts and beet the wheel

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bub Dawg's What do you think? says:

    The sound of a screaming air ratchet or a an impact brings me back to my childhood just love that sound๐Ÿ˜

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nick Barber says:

    I guess the good thing about a Chevy is you will eventually replace everything and by the end of it have a new car

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan falley says:

    So many years, so many videos your working commentary still cracks me up. Thanks Eric

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ted Soumas says:

    Normally after I hear "Itโ€™s got the chubby rubba, the leatha, the hole in the roof" I see foot to the floor, slammed into drive, then slammed into reverse, a cloud of tire smoke, and then clunk clunk bang bang! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Pete Nebber says:

    Seems like a very poor design. Just shouldn't be that difficult to change a bearing.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stevie says:

    I remember running across a nut on a bush hog with 7000 ft lbs of torque until I figured out it was left handed thread!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan's Learning Curve says:

    Magnet exposed to the elements!?
    What in the THUNDER could go wrong?!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars LexTeakMiaLoki says:

    Anybody wipe off their computer screen like 3 times while looking at the Autel !!!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Shuken Flash says:

    So many SMA videos lately, I'm loving it. Love seeing you dig into these things. Thanks for bringing us along

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