At 2:59 PM -0600 2/18/03, Patrick J. Horne wrote:
>
>Does one of the two connectors without power that go to the brake light
>switch have a place to piggyback a second wire onto it? If so, connect
>them together and put them on one of the switch connections. Put the hot
>wire on the other and you should be set.
>
>Peace,
>Pat
Looking at the lights again today, I jumped the third
'mystery wire' to one of the wires to the switch and got brake lights
on right and not left!! time to revisit the T/S switch.
Found the old non-functional switch from before, and foud the fault
with that. The little switch has 6 contacts. Two of them are a kind
of bridge affair wired to the green/yellow wire. Either end of the
bridge (which is under a bit of spring tension) terminates in contact
points, one to white/red, the other to white/black. The points were
gunked up and the spring tension was a weak on one side, so there was
no continuity between white/red and white/black when this porion of
the switch was in the closed position. A little cleaning and
bending, and proper operation seemed to be restored.
When the switch was put back in the car and plugged
in...still no brake lights. I jumped the 'mystery' wire to one of
the leads running to the brake light switch and now I was getting
lights on both sides. I then proceeded to make up a jumper for Pat's
fix above, except, not having a printout of the email, I did
something different.
The short third wire thhat has power to it, we'll call (A) I
jumped G/Ywire A to the G/Y wire running to the switch that seemed to
do nothing call that wire (B). The G/Y wire that caused the brake
lights to operate when jumped to wire (A) was connected to switch.
G/Y Wire (A) and (B) combo connected to other switch lead.
So A to B, A/B to switch lead, C to other switch lead, brake
lights work. Why? I don't know...
One good thing from all this is that if the brake-lights on
one side curse happens to anyone on the list, the little switch is
fixable, so a $260 expenditure on a new T/S switch may not be needed.
-Fingers crossed,
Marc T.
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1970 1600 #SPL311-31016
1965 L-320 #L320 013642
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