yay0

So lately ive been leaking alot of brake fluid and ive been trying to trace it. i had a small leak coming from master cylinder, i replaced that but im still losing fluid. so today i looked around and i found it. ABS unit is leaking big time, all around the two end caps and also from 2 of the hex bolts in the corners. is there any fix to this or does unit have to be replaced?

Greeny

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It needs to be replaced,junkyard or classifieds section would be your best bet for another unit..

yay0

damn..anybody here have one for sale?

Greeny

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Start a want to buy thread inthe classifieds....

http://forums.maxima.org/forumdisplay.php?f=62

internetautomar

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Didn't WE already cover this on another forum wayne?

Greeny

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Seems like it?

xx-Marshall-xx

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yeah it happened to me i had to get a whole new ABS actuator... :-/

pretty easy, deff a junkyard

good luck

Ninty-two-se

I tried that a few weeks ago... haven't heard back from anyone yet.

I've been through 2 ABS actuators and can find no more maximas in the local junk yards with abs... any one have any idea how much that part would run new from the $tealership (That is if they can even get it)?

Greeny

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Probably about $12,000...

Michael

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1005.50 at a discount dealer (plus $120 to ship)...click to see.

Greeny

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^ I was close^

Michael

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yeah if you had one less 0 and the comma over to the left one more space

Ninty-two-se

Well I guess thats cheaper than buying a new car... and my max is pretty much just a lawn orniment with out it... I just hope I don't have to go that route.

Rungi

Mine was about $1,300 new including labor. Ouch.
Fine (Fine? Find.) one at a junk yard, and don't let em charge you more than a couple hundred!

Ninty-two-se

Sorry to jack this thread again but... I came up with this... http://www.carpart.com/item.wws?sku=...ientid=carpart

Is this the ABS actuator? I'm pretty sure it is but I just want to verify before I buy it.

internetautomar

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that would be the correct part #.
just good luck actually getting it.

ttvenom800

Yeah I just got a 1993 GXE. When we got it, it was spraying out brake fluid from the abs actuator. We took it apart, and found a hairline crack in one of the vertical tubes on the unit.
My father and a friend machined a replacement tube out of a bolt, and we put it back together.

So far, it has been about a week of fine brakes, but when i got home today after about 110 miles of highway driving, my brake light came on and i put about a quarter of a can of brake fluid in the car.

I'm soo glad i found some other people with this same problem, i was thinking that it was just my car with this, but apparently it has happened more than once.

Ninty-two-se

Care to expand on that? Thanks

Greeny

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It's not from his site...

internetautomar

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I've seen it happen where they show a part # and they actually don't have a part.

yay0

well i found one in the junkyard im going to pick it up this week. how is the install? just disconnect all brake lines and remove then bleed brakes?

ttvenom800

When i did it, i just disconnected all the connected tubes, disconnected the electrical plugs, loosened the two large nuts holding the unit to the base, and took off one small nut on the wheelwell-side of the unit. It was relatively easy, hehe. I do believe that soon I will buy another unit and replace mine, it's getting very cumbersome.