Re: brake lights

[kdbinney@juno.com]

My guess is he had it with the switch on the pedal assembly, check that
one first.  Its not that hard to remove the plastic.

Kyle

On Fri, 9 May 1997 11:19:55 -0400 brett@kodak.com (Brett VanSprewenburg)
writes:
>
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm having trouble with my brake lights not working.  I checked the 
>fuses,
>> but i haven't yet checked the switch (which is of course located
>> underneath all that damn dashboard plastic).  Does anyone have any
>> suggestions to what else it may be?  People are getting pissed at me 
>b/c i
>> have no brake lights.  I don't want a rear-end smear on my precious 
>car.  
>> THanks in Adavance.
>> 
>> 
>
>The last time I had a brake light failure on my '80 Mk I, it was the
>electrically activated pressure switches screwed into the brake master
>cylinder.  There should be two, one on either side of the master 
>cylinder,
>if I'm remembering this correctly.  I believe that you could test to 
>see if
>it was the switche(s) by disconnecting the two wires from one of them, 
>then
>tying them together with a clip, or another piece of wire or whatever. 
> If
>your brake lights activate, the switch is bad.  Take bad part out, buy 
>new
>one, replace.  Repeat until fixed. :-)
>
>==Brett
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