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Subject:Re: brake lights '89 vanagon
From:Felder
Date:Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:07:36 -0800

Maybe not so. I had a problem with my brake lights "sticking" on. It
was the sensors on the MC.

Jim

On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 07:57 AM, Zoran Mladen wrote:

> The switches that control the brake lights are not on
> the M/C.  They are mounted where the peda comes to
> rest.  It sounds like your switch is sticking...
>
> Z
>
> --- Birkenfeld Jeff <BirkenfeldJeff@JOHNDEERE.COM>
> wrote:
>> Volks, my brake lights are not lighting up properly.
>>  To light them requires pushing on the brake pedal
>> very hard, harder than required to stop.  Cleaned
>> taillight housing contacts and contacts on master
>> cylinder switches with no change.  Could the
>> switches at the master cylinder be bad or clogged?
>> How much fluid will drain out if I quickly swap out
>> the switches at the master cylinder or better to
>> suck out the fluid from the reservoir first?
>> TIA
>>
>> Jeff
>
>
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