Hey guy,

I'm Max. I'm new here. I bought a '99 Disco II a few months back and LOVE it.

Very quickly I cam down with Three Amigos syndrome. Turns out it was my shuttle valves. I didn't feel like spending hundreds of dollars to replace the valves, or thousands to replace the whole module.

Being the electronics geek that I am, my solution instead was to design and build a module that solved the problem. I built a module that detects the shuttle valve failure when it occurs and then sends the SLABS unit the proper data that it would have otherwise gotten from the valves. It acts much quicker than the SLABS unit does so the Three Amigos stay away. While the module feeds the replacement data to the SLABS it waits for the shuttle valves to start working again. When they do, it deactivates and puts them back in place... No Amigos. The module alerts me when it's active so I know how often the valve switches are failing. The ABS and traction control work great, regardless of the state of the shuttle switches. No Amigos

I'm wondering if there would be any market for this thing.

What do you think?

Would you buy one? If so, for how much?

Thanks!

~Max

 

I will offer $100 since it is in beta...do you guarantee it? How did you test the ABS and traction control when the shuttle switches failed to make sure they still work? Pics please.

Honestly, sounds great.

 

I'll bite same questions, 100 dollar bill! how does it wire in?

 

Unplowed parking lot for the testing...

I built mine into a small box mounted under the dash, like you would a brake controller, so I could see the status lights.

It connects in with 5 wires:
(1) 12v+
(2) Ground
(3) Brake Pedal Sensor + (That's how it determines what signal to send when it's override the shuttle valve sensors)
(4) To SLABS
(5) From ABS Module
(Basically, I cut the green/yellow wire in the kick panel, then spliced in the in/out from my box. Everything connects right under the dash)

 

very interesting

 

Interesting but we know how to fix the shuttle valve fault for free.

 

They are one of the problems, there is an easy fix though if you read through the stickies.

 

Are shuttle valves the most common cause of the Three Amigos?

Does this thing just solve my problem, or could it be of some use to the greater LR community?

 

Are you referring to the external wire method?

 

lipadj46 means this: https://landroverforums.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=26847