Re: [Amc-list] Brake lights out again - how do I test the switch?

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Dave,
    You may be able to adapt in a switch from a late 60's sumpin real easy.
My American uses a nice little switch that could proly be adapted into an older car easily.
Makes me wish I'd have grabbed all them out of the other Americans I parted as IIRC, it sits in a nice little bracket off the pedal support.
   Now that I think about it, I may have kept some.

Man I got to get over this last hump in the road and get some stuff done.

Feels good to have the convert back indoors, even though my shop is now full of bees.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: d stohler <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx>
> if you want to test the switch, get you a multimeter
> that will test resistance or ohms. easiest is to put
> it where it will beep when resistance is 0. unhook the
> leads going into and out of the switch. hook the
> multimeter leads up to each wire going into the
> switch, and then press the brake pedal to see if there
> is resistance. if there is resistance, the switch is
> good. 
> 
> the brake light switch on my 62 classic is a little
> late turning on now. i put the disk brake set up on my
> car, and so i use less brake pedal pressure. my switch
> is a pressure switch. so much pressure in the line
> system, it turns on. i dont use near as much pressure
> now. so i need to get a diffrent switch. 
> 
> if it is a pressure switch, have someone stand behind
> the car while parked, and stand on the pedal. if it is
> a position switch, see if it may have come loose and
> moved so it wont close the circuit now. 
> 
> dave stohler
> http://picasaweb.google.com/das24rules
> 
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