Brake light.

John ED Renstrom

John ED Renstrom

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Looks like i 'm going to be back in the working class in a bit. But till then i have this problem with the right brake light. It wount light up. missed seeing that on the 64. I have a bright turn light and decent tail Light. But no brake. So turn signal switch but i have to hot brake light wires coming out and across the connector. So not there. So were is the open i think i got it down to a junction box, Were the power wire from the stop light switch goes in. But i ran out of steam yesterday. Will hunt more
 
The wires from the fuse block to the rear run along the left side of the car. The connector to the dash wire harness is located behind the left side kick panel. This is where I would start looking for the issue. The directional signal switch is located on the steering column, and all power to the rear stop lights and directional flows through this switch. The stop light switch is located on the steering column and it is a very basic switch, one wire in and one wire out.
 
yes first things first. We find what color wire we are looking for. in this case the right side is green. We know the the wiring is good to the bulb because we have a turn signal. We know the contacts in the turn signal switch are good as in the neutral position with the brake pushed we have steady power on two wires and across the connector. No power with the brake off. Those contacts work. By tracing the power off the brake switch we find it goes to a junction box were we find the green wire with out power with the brake pushed. So we take the connector apart clean it up and put it back together and we have power now on our green wire and our light. Lucked out here as i don't have the turn signal switch laying around. Put the new neutral safety switch on and this one is ready to go driving. Never had one with a turn but no brake light before. That was a strange one. In the picture of the signal switch you can just see the open contact that lets it flash on one side and steady burn on the other. IMG_0470.jpgIMG_0464.jpgIMG_0468.jpgIMG_0466.jpgIMG_0469.jpgIMG_0465.jpgIMG_0471.jpg
 
That is a neutral safety and back up light switch. I put all LED bulbs into my 1962 since the original 1157 bulbs are about as bright as candles by comparison to the LED bulbs. The only place that I couldn't use an LED bulb was the dome light, because that bulb has a double contact on the end, and the LED bulb with the double contact doesn't isolate the ground from the case of the bulb.
 
Now, I'm not worried about how bright they are, but I don't live where you do. The safety switch was the last thing to swap out. It was old and broken so that it would start in any position. It's better than that Oldsmobile; it doesn't start in any position. One doesn't think about those things. But I was able to find the last one in our parts house system in Sioux Falls this morning. It's probably better to get a spare from Rock Auto. Their standard shipping is really slow, so I'll need to move it to make room for Nick's car when it arrives around Tuesday. With so many cars around her, if I do temporary fixes, they last for years and only get changed if I get surprised..
 
I have a bunch of NOS ones in my collection. They rarely ever fail, from my experience.
 
Must be a driver with a lead foot on the pedal that caused that damage. I can only guess that he put his foot into it!
 
You must have jinxed me, because I am having difficulty with mine. I believe that it is either a bad switch or it is in the directional signal assembly.
 
You did it you claimed the never go out. Both of mine were broken. The chevy who knows when but the olds I had to drop the steering column to get the dash out to swap the speedometer. Brittle plastic. In a 60s car
 
I'm going to sell my car! It is too much upkeep to keep it washed and waxed, and when you add on replacing the brake light switch, that puts it over the top. I heard that even with the scrap metal prices being down, they are still paying $250 if you can drive it in.
 
Paul Steinberg said:
I'm going to sell my car! It is too much upkeep to keep it washed and waxed, and when you add on replacing the brake light switch, that puts it over the top. I heard that even with the scrap metal prices being down, they are still paying $250 if you can drive it in.
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Thats if it's a real ambulance,
 
I only got 165.00 for the last one i took in. All most had to pay the man to take it. Those pencil pusher and there paper confuse me. the economy is simple, times are good scrap is down times are hard scrap is up
 
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