Stuck in Jacksonville Florida
What does a person do? We are in Jacksonville Florida, on our way back to Canada. The ABS light came on when we left Lakeland and the vehicle was shifting kind of funny. It was not that noticeable when we got on the inner state and was driving at speed, but when we got off the highway and on our way to a campground it was bad, stalled a couple of times, hard to restart.
Made it to our campground, the next day went to the local Ford dealer, its on a Ford f53 chassis , after some testing the dealership informed me the ABS module was defective, and its a discontinued part. They have searched all the USA as well as Canada and there are none available anywhere.
So my question is this, what does a person do now? The tech said a rebuild might be possible, but that takes a week to do, it has to be sent away. When this happens to other F53 owners do you just throw them away. There has got to be another solution
Right now I am stuck with no answers, I know there must still be a lot of these chassis out there and I am sure some one has had this problem, I need help bad.
We are in a 1999 Winnebago 34 foot Chieftain, it makes a nice home, but not fun to drive right now.
By the way, another one of the recommended solutions was to drive it back to Canada as is, and try to find someone there who can rebuild the module, the way the MH is driving , I don't think my heart could stand a 2000 mile white knuckle trip like that.
Thank for any suggestions you may have
Made it to our campground, the next day went to the local Ford dealer, its on a Ford f53 chassis , after some testing the dealership informed me the ABS module was defective, and its a discontinued part. They have searched all the USA as well as Canada and there are none available anywhere.
So my question is this, what does a person do now? The tech said a rebuild might be possible, but that takes a week to do, it has to be sent away. When this happens to other F53 owners do you just throw them away. There has got to be another solution
Right now I am stuck with no answers, I know there must still be a lot of these chassis out there and I am sure some one has had this problem, I need help bad.
We are in a 1999 Winnebago 34 foot Chieftain, it makes a nice home, but not fun to drive right now.
By the way, another one of the recommended solutions was to drive it back to Canada as is, and try to find someone there who can rebuild the module, the way the MH is driving , I don't think my heart could stand a 2000 mile white knuckle trip like that.
Thank for any suggestions you may have
