Need help decoding blink codes

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    I'll probably have time to look in the manual after work. If you'd like something faster, you're sure to find the info if you go to techinfo.toyota.com and find them in volume 1 of the service manual. It'll cost you $15 I think (for a couple days of access) and that's less than what your time is worth searching around the interwebs and finding stuff that might be right. Also, the manual won't just tell you what the codes are saying, it'll tell you how to do the followup diagnosis and repair.

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    I've been looking in the service manual and all the codes relate to the abs brake system. Is it possible that the abs speed sensor on the right rear wheel will make the entire system go haywire. I'm about to remove it to inspect it like it says on the manual. Hopefully is just that.
     
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    If the codes you got were the ones from the blinking ABS brake light, that goes without saying....

    I would be really surprised if it did. But something else occurs to me: you really do have quite a number of codes there. In your other thread you mentioned checking a bunch of relays and such, and it's possible you generated some of those codes in the process. In a case like that, it might be sensible to make sure everything is back as you found it, then clear the codes, then drive a little and see which ones come back.

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    The car was running perfect until I hit that pot hole then all hell broke loose. The right rear wheel hub including the abs speed sensor I purchased in January from a company in Amazon. I called them up and they are going to send me a replacement. Hopefully after I replace it I'll see if that was it.
    Also when you say clear the codes, I have the odb scanner with the torque app on the phone. That's the only way I can clear codes. Would that be enough or is there a way to clear these hard codes by jumping pins? Thanks for all the help.
     
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    You had several codes in there that didn't look speed-sensor-related, but you'll find out something anyway.

    Removing all 12v power for a few minutes seems to be the brute-force way of clearing all computers' codes. There is a direct way to clear ABS codes while you are reading them - I think it involves some number of steps on the brake pedal while you still have TC and CG jumpered. You mentioned having access to the manual so you can check the details in there (mine's put away for the night but it should be just ahead of the pages I quoted, around DI-350 or so).

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