Service brakes, air: antilock: wheel speed sensor (Todco)
Vehicle recall 78V-053. NHTSA received TODCO DIVISION’s report on Mar 13, 1978.
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The short answer
NHTSA received TODCO DIVISION’s report on Mar 13, 1978. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
THE SPECIAL JAM NUT THAT ENSURES PROPER ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE STATOR AND THE EXCITER ON THE WAGNER ANTI-SKID DEVICE WAS NOT INSTALLED.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Service brakes, air: antilock: wheel speed sensor.
What should you do?
THE DEALER WILL INSTALL THE CORRECT JAM NUT ON THE AXLE WITHOUT CHARGE TO OWNER.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: TRUCKS.SYSTEM: SERVICE BRAKES; ANTI-LOCK BRAKE SYSTEM.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: THIS CONDITION WOULD CAUSE INCONSISTENCY IN THEOPERATION OF THE ANTI-LOCK SYSTEM WHICH COULD HAVE AN ADVERSE EFFECT ON VEHICLEHANDLING. THE ELECTRICAL PART ON THE ANTI-LOCK DEVICES SHOULD BE DISCONNECTEDUNTIL A CORRECTION HAS BEEN MADE.
- Check a vehicle by its VIN at NHTSA: the recalls still open on it are listed there.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 53 vehicles potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Todco Jiffloxand 1977, before the model years listed here
Who is recalling it?
- Made by TODCO DIVISION.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Whether one vehicle or seat has been fixed: only its maker, or NHTSA’s lookup with a VIN, can say.
- This recall names only model years before 2015, which have no pages here. Your VIN, at NHTSA, says which recalls are open on a vehicle.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.