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Re: Brake light question

To: mvheim@studiolimage.com
Subject: Re: Brake light question
From: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 17:38:05 -0400
Hi Max,
  No particular insight on this, but I have had the same problem.  My
cheap Lucas switch became unreliable after only 47 years.  Moss carries
them. I replaced it.
  Old one works fine on the workbench.
Bob


On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:20:13 -0700 Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
writes:
> The other night another driver informed me that the brake lights 
> weren't working on the B. I was astonished to hear this, so when I got
home, 
> I backed up to a fence and tried to confirm the problem. What I found 
> out puzzled me. There was no sign of brake lights upon normal 
> application of the pedal, but if I really really pushed hard on the
pedal (I mean 
> ridiculously hard, with both feet), the brake lights came on.
> 
> I could come up with an explanation for this situation if there was 
> an adjustable, pedal-mounted switch, as in some cars, but the B has a
> pressure-sensing switch in the brake line, which I always thought of 
> as bimodal (on or off above a certain threshold), not as progressive. 
> Anyone have any insight? Obviously the switch has not (completely)
failed, 
> and the bulbs work.
> 
> TIA,
> Max

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