Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

It’s not the first time I see this kind of job on the electronics area but I don’t understand the reason behind it.
If it fails, you will be responsible and have to do it properly later so why risk it….

Anyway, removed all these strange looking wires and covered the damaged section using the expensive but proper Raychem tube.







ABS flushing….
I had to drain the reservoir of ABS SST because so much aerated fluid was recovered.
In fact, it nearly overflowed it.

Waited for the bubbles to settle and at the end, I recovered more than 200cc…
I’m afraid this means that some of the nitrogen gas was lost from the accumulator that even I flush the system this time,
it will never get back to the factory new condition and will trigger the ABS pump frequently in the future.
The only fix is to replace the accumulator or upgrade to the latest-latest one body solution.





As reported earlier, the fluid level of the ABS reservoir was already showing well over the max line so some of the solenoids were leaking.
Marked the leaky solenoid connectors. At least 2 of them were very leaky with another one with light leak.







When I moved to this connector, I noticed that one of the terminal had no friction at all.
This is the first time in my life to see damaged WPC terminal in this state but looking at the mating terminal, there was no oxidation or corrosion.
So, it is very likely that it was damaged by someone trying to force the connector with some angle.
Still, very rare and I have never seen one.

It was not triggering the ABS warning light for the outlet solenoid failure so even with this damage, there was enough continuity but I didn’t like it so decided to repair it.








Unfortunately, I don’t have WPC terminal in stock but have the non-WPC ones (even gold plated) so used it and instead of silicone plug,
used liquid gasket to create water proofing at the back of the terminal.

This is the connector that had the terminal failure.





With the loss of nitrogen gas at the accumulator, I’m quite sure it will over flow if I top the reservoir to the max level so
I’ll keep the fluid level just above the half between max-min.