SOURCE: ABS and TC light is on
Has your Brake Pedal been Spongy or Go to the Floor at all Recently????
The bearings on the wheels has to be installed one way only, the rotor ring is built into the bearing and if installed the wrong way round the sensor cant pick up the wheel speed causing the ligt to be switched on in the cluster. The diagnostic equipment should pick this up as a fault once the car has been driven, it will see the sensor when you do the diagnostic if the car is standing still but once the car is moving and no signal is send from that wheel it would register a fault into the memory of the PCM that you would be able to retrieve later.
There is a way for you to test the sensor yourself by using a multimeter set on volts, you jack the vehicle up at that wheel, install a vehicle stand to support the vehicle to be safe, disconect the wheel speed sensor and probe the two wires into the sensor, spin the wheel by hand and a small amount of current will be produced meaning the the sensor is working and the wheel bearing is installed the correct way, you can also do a continuaty test on the sensor by switching the multimeter onto ohms, but be very carefull, if this sensor has three wires you cant do the continuaty test because of the integrated circuit in the sensor, the three wire sensors opperate on a voltage from 5Volt and it would be destroyed by the multimeter opperating on 9Volt.
If the continuaty test passes and the bearing is installed the correct way, the most comon fault would be a break in the wiring leading to the PCM
Hope this will be helpfull.
SOURCE: i changed the front wheel bearing and abs light
Did you fit the ABS bearing the right way round! one side is magnetic, denoted by a gray side or the ABS sensor has moved away .try to puch sensor in slightley leaving a tiny clearance.
SOURCE: Can bad hub bearings make the abs and tc light to
Absolutely YES! The bearing and hub assembly contains the wheel speed sensor which is used by the Antilock Brake System (ABS) and the Traction Control (TC) system to see when a wheel is trying to lock up and cause skidding. The ABS will release the hydraulic pressure to the brake on that wheel and the traction control will reduce engine speed to prevent the wheel from locking up or causing you to spin out.
Many GM vehicles also commonly have problems with the wiring harnesses to the wheel speed sensors that can cause this same problem. The computer does not know WHY it cannot read the speed sensor signal. It only knows that it is not getting the signal and this is why the light is turned on. Before paying the BIG BUCKS for a wheel bearing and hub assembly, it would be wise to make absolutely certain that the problem is not being caused by a fault in the wiring harness. I have seen many mechanics automatically replace the wheel bearing only to find out that the problem still exists because they did not take the time to DIAGNOSE the problem. The fault code description says "Wheel Speed Sensor CIRCUIT fault." They see "speed sensor and automatically replace the sensor without actually checking the circuit. Not a problem unless you are the customer having to PAY for this type of guess-work!!!
There are wiring harness repair kits available for MOST GM vehicles just for this purpose.
I have included pictures of the bearing and hub assembly and the wiring harness kit to help you understand what we are talking about here.
Note the electrical connector sticking out of the hub assembly. This is the wires to the speed sensor. In the other picture, the connector at the end of the wiring harness is what plugs into the connector in the hub assembly. The other end of it gets spliced into the main vehicle harness in the engine compartment, after cutting the original harness out.
WHEEL BEARING AND HUB ASSEMBLY
WIRING HARNESS REPAIR KIT
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