anti lock brakes on my van

[dark-eyed-girl]

just got a good deal on a 92 dodge caravan!!..problem is... abs brake light comes on goes out then back on to stay ..the brake pedal is hard to push and braking power is lost ..can i temp .fix by turning off the abs and have standard brakes ? or just pull a fuse to disengage? Thanks for any help....

[waltham41]

If the antilock light is on that means you are already down to standard brakes. Do you have an electric master cylinder booster or a vaccum one? That may be your problem.

[dark-eyed-girl]

Originally Posted by waltham41

If the antilock light is on that means you are already down to standard brakes. Do you have an electric master cylinder booster or a vaccum one? That may be your problem.

electric master cylinder booster ...

[waltham41]

Originally Posted by dark-eyed-girl

electric master cylinder booster ...

I can only speak from personal experience, but I have a 92 Caravan with the electric booster which has a hard pedal and if I let off the brake pedal and immediately hit it again I have no brakes at all, and after ruling out any other source of brake trouble, I started searching about the electric brake booster and it seems that there was a recall about them and that they are covered under a lifetime warranty through Dodge.

They are not too happy to be working on it but my local Dodge dealer has one on order and I am waiting for them to contact me to replace the booster.

[dark-eyed-girl]

Originally Posted by waltham41

I can only speak from personal experience, but I have a 92 Caravan with the electric booster which has a hard pedal and if I let off the brake pedal and immediately hit it again I have no brakes at all, and after ruling out any other source of brake trouble, I started searching about the electric brake booster and it seems that there was a recall about them and that they are covered under a lifetime warranty through Dodge.

They are not too happy to be working on it but my local Dodge dealer has one on order and I am waiting for them to contact me to replace the booster.

recall oh wonderful lol....thankyou for your info... i will contact the dodge dealership here and see what i can find out

[waltham41]

Originally Posted by dark-eyed-girl

recall oh wonderful lol....thankyou for your info... i will contact the dodge dealership here and see what i can find out

The recall was put out years ago and may have already been done on your vehicle.

It was done on mine if I remember correctly about 8 years ago (I am not the original owner) but it seems the part is failing again.

While you are at the dealership have them look up your vin number and see if there are any recalls on your vehicle that have not been done.

You can also do this at the Dodge.com website using your vin number

[dark-eyed-girl]

Originally Posted by waltham41

The recall was put out years ago and may have already been done on your vehicle.

It was done on mine if I remember correctly about 8 years ago (I am not the original owner) but it seems the part is failing again.

While you are at the dealership have them look up your vin number and see if there are any recalls on your vehicle that have not been done.

You can also do this at the Dodge.com website using your vin number

hi again !
see if you find this as strange as me ....
the van we have been refering too i went to switch batteries out for the one that was in my other van newer battery /warranty etc about 10 minutes later after driving suddenly the brake pedal went from hard to push to just normal like standard brakes the park brake light went off which has been on since the anti brake problem and has stayed off just abs light and normal brakes drove maybe another 10 miuntes stayed like standard even drove it back and forth and hit brakes hard what in the world is causing this ? not that i am complainging much easier to push but would like t oknow whatit is doing thanks again