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You need to bend or adjust brake light switch position
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:32:26
In Reply to: Brake lights stick on and unstick by opening/closing, Jake_in_Atlanta, Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:04:28
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Jake, if you tip UP on the underside of the brake pedal with your toe, it will almost always click the brake lights off, but that isn't the correct fix for this problem.
What's happened is the brake light switch, from wear or stiffness or whatever, has gone just out of adjustment.
I didn't even bother to see if it has adjusting threads and nuts, I don't think it does, at least on my '92. I fixed this by reaching up along brake pedal shaft and finding the switch, on a sheet metal bracket, and locking an adjustable wrench onto the bracket by closing its jaws down real close, then using the wrench to bend the bracket to move the switch just a tad closer to the flat place its button contacts on the pedal shaft.
You can hear the click when the switch acts. You want to make it ALWAYS click off when pedal naturally returns to top with pressure off it. But NOT so close that brake light doesn't click on with just a slight pressure on the pedal.
You must have discovered that this quickly kills your battery. I don't know where you are but this is no time of year in New England to have mystery current drains.
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