[FC] brake light help

[Gary Swiatowy]

The 2 filament bulb has one filament for the tail lights. The second, 
brighter filament is for both the brake lights and the turn signal.

The brake light switch is underneath and are notorious to failure or the 
wires corroding.
This would be then most likely wired into the factory switch at some point 
for distribution of the power to the rear lights.
If you have bypassed the the original signals, you have no brake lights.

Both switches are still available...........

Gary Swiatowy




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Wild8bill at aol.com>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:00 PM
Subject: [FC] brake light help


> I'm trying to diagnose the lack of brake lights on my '61 rampy. I believe
> that they worked in the past. The switch is fine, and current comes out of 
> it
> when the pedal is pushed down. What I haven't been able to figure out is 
> how a
> bulb with only two pos wires going into it (one for turn signals, the 
> other
> for  tail AND brakes, I assume) can have 3 functions? Does the depression 
> of
> the  pedal add extra juice to the tail light filament of the bulb, making 
> it
> brighter?
>
> What I've found in poking around: there is a wire spliced onto the POS 
> wire
> coming out of the brake switch (which is white with a black stripe) that 
> goes
> back up to the dash...someplace. The white/black stripe wire goes back to 
> the
> rear harness, where it was cut and capped by P/O. I cannot determine where
> it  originally went; it has juice in it when pedal is depressed.
>
> My 1961 owners manual does not have a wiring diagram for the brake lights,
> but it does have a tail light diagram and turn signal diagram, and I am 
> hooked
> up correctly, both work. I need a brake light wiring diagram, I think.
>
> Hey, I just thought of something, the brake switch probably sends juice to
> both the turn signals at the same time (making using the turn signals 
> while
> braking impossible)! I recently bypassed the broken turn signal switch in 
> favor
> of a lever like on my Nash Metropolitan, so I probably missed something in
> the  process. Hmm...writing these things out actually helps! Back to the
> testing...........
>
> Bill
>
> '61 rampy
> '63 greenbrier
>
>
>
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