Repeated intermittent ABS light issues

[Markiii]

did you not still have to go to that effort to remove it? or did you go with the destroy it option?

[Ronin]

I went with destroy and replace option, much quicker and better result, because you end up with a new sensor that's not a ticking time bomb unlike a 21+ year old one.

Vast majority of them fail where the cable goes from the strut to the cars body, there is nothing to break in the sensor itself, it's just a coil of wire encased in plastic.

[Markiii]

well as expected the sodding sensor snapped when I tried to remove it.

If I drop the drive shaft can it be pushed through or do I need to tap it back out the way it went in?

[Ronin]

I made a few holes with a drill in mine and picked it all out out with a screwdriver, 10 mins work.

[paulrstaylor]

Self tapper into it and pull on that...

[Markiii]

Thanks chaps. It's out

Now how the hell do you depin the connector?

[Ronin]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235226700...Bk9SR-L8rJL9Yg

[Markiii]

I have the tools just can't get anything to release. Is the pink bit a locking mech that needs removing or are they supposed to unlock with it in place?

[Ronin]

The purple tab inside slides out a few mm to release the pins, if it's stiff spray some wd40 in there first.

[Markiii]

thanks will give that a try