My ABS light came on a few times now, it clears for awhile when the key is cycled. Crawled underneath and checked for obvious cable damage and such, nothing. I use the truck for work everyday so its not easy to run it to the dealer unless its serious enough to have to take a day off from work. Anyone else have the ABS light, what was the fix and how long did it take? Anything else I can check in the meantime?

 

im curious to know the answer to this too as my abs light wont go off at all.....my truck is much different than an F150 but maybe an answer might lead me in the right direction.

 

You can get a hand held engine diagnosis thing -I forgot what ya call it -but at Advance Auto for about $70. big ones ,It works real good my budy got one I use his .He has a 2000 F150 with a 5.4 in it .The plugin is the same ,GOOD LUCK

 

I tried my Predator which should show codes too, but it doesn't show anything to do with the ABS light. I guess it will only show codes associated with the check engine light only.

 

You need a different scan tool to read and clear ABS codes. This is a separate system within the PCM. The best bet is to get a proper tool similar to the ones the shops use, the power programmers like Hypertech and Xcal don't read these codes.

BTW a damaged parking brake cable won't set a code.

 

Try fiddling with your parking brake; make sure when it’s released it’s all the way up

 

To be honest I have never used the park brake, but I'll check it out.

 

Mine came on a week or so after I had my leveling kit installed. The sensor behind the rotor on the the driver side wasn't tight so I pulled it out, cleaned it with some WD-40 and tightened back up. No more ABS light!