<VV> Brake Light Problem Resolved, Many Thanks!!!

[LastHamlet]

Thanks Bill that was a load of info, and Thanks to
several others as well. I do have an excellent meter,
but it is hard to use it, and reach all the way to the
pedal to test it.
Bryan Blackwell was the first to call the problem,
then others suggested it as well.
I have tele-steering so when I got home I pulled the
tele up, heard a click, as if a tab return to place,
and like magic the lights work.
One footnote I would like to add for people with
future problems is this.......
The left socket has three wires(2 brown wires fused
together in the harness, and one yellow wire.) The
yellow wire is the signal and brake light wire, and
the brown is the running lights. Earlier I had it
backwards thinking the feed from the brake was the
brown wire. 
One of those brown wires in the left socket goes to
the right socket. So, the right socket only has 2
wires(1 brown and one green.) In the right socket of
course, the green wire is the signal and brake wire.
So that means that the running lights feed goes to the
left light first, then it is jumped to the right
socket with that mysterious second brown wire in the
left socket.
I hope this will help anybody in the future.
I would like to Thank all of you for the excellent
input, cause it could have been a lot of things, and I
never knew the brake and signal lights both got their
power from the signal switch, but you fellows were
right.  I had the silly assumption that somehow the
brake switch that is at the pedal would be the feed
for the brake lights, but that is obviously similar to
the horn, which uses the ground as the wire they break
for contact use.(To make them come on and off.)
I hate I got off on a bad foot a while back, by
threatening to pommel my car, but please believe me, I
could never do it. I am truly sorry for that display
of childish behavior, and promise to never do anything
of the nature again.
Please forgive my stupidity.
All The Best Regards,
Danny Barber
67 Vert named Wilma, will live forever.
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Another measure, if you're desperate, is to run
another wire from the working brake light to the
non-working one.  And I'll probably get heck from
folks in the group for that, but it would work.  It
would be a shame to alter a new, OEM harness.

Good luck...Bill H.
"Suzy the Little Blue Coupe" 69 Monza 110 PG



 
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