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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 11:38 PM
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Ok so today I spent sveral hours working in the garage, and used the radio in the '02 F250 for entertainment. So much so that I drained the battery to the point where the truck wouldn't start. I jumpstarted the F250 with my F150 and now I noticed that the ABS light is on. What did I burn up in the jumpstart?
 
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Old Aug 13, 2012 | 01:07 AM
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Hard to say with out any DTCs. Take it to a dealer and have the codes read. A normal code reader cannot do this.
 
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Old Aug 13, 2012 | 08:53 AM
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I've done this a few times, no radio because the kids just break em or take em to there room!

If you can get your hands on a scanner that can read ABS codes do it! If not the dealer is gonna be the only place except maybe a good brake shop
 
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Old Aug 13, 2012 | 02:37 PM
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might not be anything at all, I've had dummy lights come on when disconnecting battery, and the engine has to go thru 3 complete cycles of warm up and cool down to erase some falty readings, check to see if everything feels ok then run it thru 3 cycles and see if it goes out.

Just a shot in the dark but cheaper than replacing a lot of things you don't need
 
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Old Aug 15, 2012 | 01:47 AM
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might not be anything at all, I've had dummy lights come on when disconnecting battery, and the engine has to go thru 3 complete cycles of warm up and cool down to erase some falty readings, check to see if everything feels ok then run it thru 3 cycles and see if it goes out.

Just a shot in the dark but cheaper than replacing a lot of things you don't need
Yeah like he said it might go away. My came on while plowing a heavy storm, stayed on the whole night and had me thinking I broke something. I was expecting to be replacing something ASAP before the next storm but it was off when I turned on the truck the following day. Only went on once more for a few seconds and haven't seen it since... been about 2 yrs. Gotta love the disappearing problems
 
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