disabling ABS (08)

[Freddy]

Do you have a gen 1 FSM at hand? 

43 = Front wheel rotation sensor wiring abnormal
(wiring shorted or open)

53 = Power supply voltage abnormal
(over-voltage)

The 53 may be a stored old code from a previous time.

[lather]

Have the FSM. My zx14 adaption work fell short. Gonna take some more flesh off in the morning.

[lather]

Correction: codes are 42 and 52. Sorry for the typo. 52 is undervoltage and 42 is wrong gap.

[Freddy]

I think you have the answer.

[lather]

SUCCESS. There was no way to accurately mill a measured amount of aluminum to achieve the specified gap between sensor and rotor so I just eyeballed it and was conservative on my first try. error #42 told me I had stopped short. Was too lazy to remove fender, wheel and fork again so I made a nother milling pass "in sirtu" with the milling bit in my two handed heavy duty corded drill. This was harder to control than I expected so I quit after a few minutes/ I guess I managed to gouge, er, mill about .025 in
off. it was ragged but I cleaned it up a bit with a file. Put the sensor on and went for a ride. Voila! The light stayed on longer than usual but after 50 feet it went out and stayed off (except for a few ignition  on and off cycles) for the remainder of my 78 mile ride. 

I tried to erase the error codes without success. The procedure seems straight forward enough although in the usual odd wording of the FSM. I may be misinterpreting. Can someone who has successfully erased codes give the repeat the procedure in English?

Thanks

[Freddy]

I've done it a few times without trouble.  It goes something like: connect wires for diagnostic modes, turn on ign, then remove jumper earth wire while it's still connected to grey wire and touch to earth for 1-2 seconds 3 or 4 times a second or 2 apart (all within 12.5 seconds) then reconnect to earth, turn off ign, pause, then turn on ign to re-enter diagnostic mode; ABS light should come on, go off, then come on again with no flashing if cleared.  I use a jumper wire that is easily & quickly dis/connected to earth rather than the earth wire/plug with the grey wire.

[lather]

Confused. Thought black/yellow wire was ground (earth) Are you disconnecting jumper from black/yellow and touching to frame?

[Freddy]

Yes, black/yellow wire is earth but it's too fiddly using it for the specified timed steps required.  I put a jumper wire in the grey wire plug and touch/hold it to a good frame earth as specified - on/hold/off/hold/on/hold/off/etc.

[lather]

Got it, Thanks!

[lather]

Yes, black/yellow wire is earth but it's too fiddly using it for the specified timed steps required.  I put a jumper wire in the grey wire plug and touch/hold it to a good frame earth as specified - on/hold/off/hold/on/hold/off/etc.

Tried a dozen times with good ground verified by my multimeter, even heated jacket harbess connected direct to battery neg post. Could not erase codes. WTF?

[Freddy]