Thread: '97 GT ABS freakin out

Hello everyone, I'm new here and glad I found this forum. I hope we never have all the problems dealt with here, but it's nice to know about this place in case we do.

The symptoms are when braking, there is a strange repeating sound
(kind like when you spring a ruler that's hanging off the edge of a desk) coming from behind the steering wheel in the engine compartment. While this is going on, the car feels like it's skidding on ice, trying to stop, but not really. Pretty scary. After awhile, whatever is trying to work just quits and all the lights come on. The car is more tolerable when this happens.

I guess what I'm going to do, for now, is to pull the fuse out and disable the ABS ala minichopper6hp's reply to here to make it possible to drive the car until it can be fixed properly.

I hope this works for now, cuz it came at a bad time

Hey thanks alot Swash!

We replaced all four hubs within the past year cuz the bearings were shot. (Maybe a faulty one?) The LR wire was giving me trouble at the connector, coming loose once in awhile, but I got it on OK. I'll definitely check them all again though.

I'll take it on over to a couple of those places to have it scanned tomorrow(?).
I'll post the results.

I was just looking for the fuse for the ABS and it wasn't listed in the inside of the block cover. I pulled the TCC thinking it was the traction control/ ABS. Nope. I'm guessing it was probably throttle related cuz a tumble weed passed me.

Thanks again Swash.

This information is probably way too late to help you, but it might help someone else.

I've had failures of the wiring harness on three out of the four corners (both front and left rear). It sets a code like described a couple of messages above as a "wheel speed circuit malfunction." The problem on mine is that water gets up into the harness, and maybe road salt, and it degrades the harness insulation and eventually the wires inside. Most auto parts stores sell a short replacement harness for this that you can splice in, which in my case solved the problem each time. Even though everyone talks about the wheel speed senders failing, I've not seen that. I did have one wheel bearing fail, and of course replacing that also replaced its sensor.

Terry