SLAYER-F150

The problem is: you live in a area that gets deep snow.

Move to Florida.

Dirttracker18

Here's what I woke up to this morning, they are calling for another 4" today on top of this. It's April 25 for f$%k sakes!

FWIW I love visiting Florida but would never live there. I love winter and snow and could not go without skiing, snowmobiling and ice fishing (so of the best fishing there is and you can get to lakes that you cannot in the summer).

On top of that we never get hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes and even flooding around here is minimal as we live next to Lake Superior so it takes lots of water to bring that up.

No landslides (too much rock) and summer is pleasant with some hot days but mostly just right temps and no high humidity.

If you like the snow this is a great place to live, excpet today, WTF?



No that was one of the only things on the front that was in good shape still. In fact both axles are factory!

Ding Ding Ding, or so I thought. It's a cheap part and time is tight so I pick up the solenoid and replace it. Still no vacuum at the IWEs

I start to dig in now and do some diagnostic work, which I should have done from the start. It turns out that the check valves are plugged up with dirt. A little compressed air gets them cleaned out and working again. Now I have vacuum at both IWEs. I figure I better keep going and check things out while I have the truck in the shop. I start the truck and spin both wheels and the axles spin with them

More vacuum testing tells me both IWEs are bad. The passenger side will not pump up at all (no change in the vacuum gauge when attempting to pull vacuum) and the drivers side pulls vacuum but leaks.

While I am checking things out I notice the drivers out tie rod is loose as well.

Order two new IWEs and a tie rod from Amazon prime and leave the truck in the garage.

When those come in I change the tie rod and both IWEs. Both now work and axles will not turn with wheels in two wheel drive with engine on

However, upon test drive I still have the noise that starting this whole thing

So now what?

IceFishinFool

Passenger side hub? Or tires under inflated

mbct

You started out with an ABS issue, so I'm going with the reluctor ring or the ABS sensor for the noise. Either that or squirrel in the engine bay, my personal favorite.

Dirttracker18

You had it right the first time, I should have called you first.

Drivers side wheel bearing was bad. I put the old one from the passenger side onto the dirvers side and what do you know, the noise is gone.

Overall I did discover the issue with the four wheel drive system and have that all repaired and am now saving about 1.5 mpg over before.

The sad part is I drove for about a week after the repair and suddenly my ABS light came back on. I was hoping that is was on due to harmonics from the bad wheel bearing. However it seems that I have another issue to deal with now.

The moral to the story is due proper diagnosis in the first place and not just jump to conclusions. Had I thoroughly checked out the front end after the noise started I would have found that drivers bad bearing.

However I may not have discovered the issue with the plugged vacuum lines and the bad IWEs.

IceFishinFool

Yeah i have a brake and abs light on and cant not figure out why. Its keeps blowing fuse 14 and i have tried unplugging every thing associated with it but still keeps blowing. Looks like i have a lot of work to do in tracking down a short some where.