Isuzu Trooper Help!

Isuzu Trooper Help!

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blueST

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4,378 posts

215 months

Monday 20th July 2015
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For reasons too embarrassing to go into on here, I'm in desperate need of a replacement front o/s ABS sensor for my mates 2000 v6 petrol Trooper. None of the usual aftermarket parts places hold them and Isuzu want £400+ and three weeks back order! The MOT is out so the car can't be used until I fix this. Any suggestions where I might get one quicker and for less than that?

Edited by blueST on Monday 20th July 16:36

blueST

Original Poster:

4,378 posts

215 months

Monday 20th July 2015
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May possibly have solved this myself. just discovered ITOC.co.uk and they have a workaround with a Mazda sensor.

http://www.itocuk.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=300...

blueST

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4,378 posts

215 months

Tuesday 4th August 2015
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It's still a work in progress, doing all the ball joints and cv joints too. Everything is rotten so has taken ages persuading old nuts and bolts to move. Got the bodged Mazda ABS sensor on one side and ABS light has gone out which is promising, should do the other side this week, test drive at the weekend.

mat13

1,977 posts

180 months

Saturday 8th August 2015
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If the mazda bodge doesnt work have a word with dan westmorland on the trooper owners club, he breaks troopers so might be able to help you.

blueST

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4,378 posts

215 months

Saturday 8th August 2015
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mat13 said:
If the mazda bodge doesnt work have a word with dan westmorland on the trooper owners club, he breaks troopers so might be able to help you.
It looks like the Mazda sensors are working, well the ABS light has gone off and it passed the MOT.. The brakes are a bit crap and its got big tyres so it's early impossible to lock the wheels on Tarmac to test the ABS out. Wiring the sensors in a way that will last and keep water out was an utter ball ache as the Mazda ones have a different connector, not that I could get the old connector apart anyway.

Getting sensors off a breaker is near impossible as they all get corroded into the hubs and you can't get them out without wrecking them. Buying the hub with the sensor in would be the only way I think.