Black box behind glove box, what is it?
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Black box behind glove box, what is it?
I need some help. I just bought a 93 1 ton dually 4x4 auto. I was tracking down a vacuum leak that was driving me nuts and I dropped the glove box to get up under the dash.
There is a black box with a large grey plug with probably twenty wires coming out of it. The plug is disconnected. WHAT IS THIS BOX?
If anyone knows, please let me know. I was going to plug it in and see what happens but figured I better see what it does, maybe there was a good reason someone disconnected it.
There is a black box with a large grey plug with probably twenty wires coming out of it. The plug is disconnected. WHAT IS THIS BOX?
If anyone knows, please let me know. I was going to plug it in and see what happens but figured I better see what it does, maybe there was a good reason someone disconnected it.
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That's the computer for the rear wheel anti lock brakes. It was probably disconnected to mask a problem with the RWAL system. Dollars to donuts you plug it in and the light stays on.
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If you plugged it back in, you'd have your BRAKE and ANTILOCK lights come on in the message center, and your rear wheels would lock up under normal stopping conditions.
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You can have BRAKE and or ANTILOCK lights on for various reasons. When you have a problem in the RWAL system, you're rear brakes can lock up under normal stopping conditions, let alone hard braking on dry on pavement.
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If you disconect the "Black Box" for the anti lock brakes, the rear brakes will function the same as the older trucks that never had anti lock brakes. I removed the black box and valve from mine when I did the conversion ( my diff does not have a speed sensor in it) and the brake function is not any different than before.
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