04-28-2022, 08:06 AM
First question - are you using the stock factory speedometer, or an aftermarket digital gauge?
If you are using the stock speedometer, what happens when you turn the key on? Do the needles sweep to full, then back? If they don't the problem is not the speed sensor.
Remember, the ABS light only goes off after both wheels have rolled 20 feet or so - it will never go off just sitting there, even if you spin up the rear wheel on the center stand.
Speed sensors almost never ever are defective in and of themselves - they are usually mis-diagnosed. If the pulser ring on the rear wheel is bent causing the clearance to be out of spec, it will not trigger. Because it can't give the ABS and PGM-FI modules any signal, it will give a code for the rear vehicle speed sensor CIRCUIT, which may not be the sensor itself. (Usually this happens when the wheel is off for a tire change.)
I would cancel the order if I were you, until I knew for sure it was the speed sensor.
If you really have to change the speed sensor, the only way to do it is unbolt the caliper, unplug and unhook the sensor, remove the axle enough to slide the caliper bracket back and off. At least you won't have to move the chain.
If you are using the stock speedometer, what happens when you turn the key on? Do the needles sweep to full, then back? If they don't the problem is not the speed sensor.
Remember, the ABS light only goes off after both wheels have rolled 20 feet or so - it will never go off just sitting there, even if you spin up the rear wheel on the center stand.
Speed sensors almost never ever are defective in and of themselves - they are usually mis-diagnosed. If the pulser ring on the rear wheel is bent causing the clearance to be out of spec, it will not trigger. Because it can't give the ABS and PGM-FI modules any signal, it will give a code for the rear vehicle speed sensor CIRCUIT, which may not be the sensor itself. (Usually this happens when the wheel is off for a tire change.)
I would cancel the order if I were you, until I knew for sure it was the speed sensor.
If you really have to change the speed sensor, the only way to do it is unbolt the caliper, unplug and unhook the sensor, remove the axle enough to slide the caliper bracket back and off. At least you won't have to move the chain.