[Shotimes] Fire Starter

[Chris Locker]

That was an interesting article.  I remember one or two people here on 
SHOtimes that mentioned that switch shorting out and glowing red hot.

I experienced a different failure with that same switch.  Years back when I 
had my '93 atx SHO, we had pulled into a gas station near my apartment to 
fill up.  The brakes felt normal on the way to the gas station.  However, 
when we were getting ready to leave, started up the engine, pushed on the 
brake pedal to shift into drive and the brake pedal went right to the floor. 
The seal in the switch had failed and subsequent presses of the brake pedal 
was pushing brake fluid out of the master cylinder through the switch.  The 
bottom of the switch and the wire loom that connects to it were covered in 
brake fluid.  Luckily, being only a few blocks from home, we were able to 
limp the SHO home using the parking brake.  Man, we were so fortunate that 
the switch decided to fail when the SHO was stopped!

Chris Locker
'98 SHO



> In this article 93 to 95 SHO's have the same brake switch setup as the 
> Ford trucks that start on fire.
>        Ken
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/16/ford.vehicles/index.html