From: David Cole (DavidCole@tk7.net)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2004 - 13:08:41 PST
I really don't understand why the military sense the brake line pressure to
turn on the brake lights. What's the point? I can see this on the 5 ton
that can slave its brakes off a towing vehicle, but apparently the duece
can't slave it's brakes off another vehicle. All civvy trucks and cars
that I know of simply sense the brake pedal being pushed down. Put a
simple switch on the brake pedal with a normally closed contact and feed it
to your brake lights. When the pedal is up, no brakes light, push it down,
have brake lights. Those switches are all over the junkyards. IMO, the
fewer taps into a hydraulic brake line the better.
Dave
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:19:35 -0600, Mike Maynard <mike@wesleyscott.com>
wrote:
> Ok, there was some minor discussion about this in the last few days.
> Could someone describe how to fix the older style brake light switch? my
> lights stopped working, and I am in a financial pinch. I am assuming it
> would be easiest to pull it out of the truck, and that means bleeding the
> brakes again? is it simple enough to do in the truck? Is it not worth
> my time, as its cheap to buy a switch? I am seeing the air switch
> conversions run around $40... thats alot more than can be spent right
> now...
>
> Ideas?
>
>
> Mike
-- Dave
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