Check the brake fluid reservoir behind the instrument cluster.
There�s a switch in the cover that�s activated when the brake fluid
level becomes too low.

Raimund

JordanVw@AOL.COM schrieb:

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>Subj:   [vanagon] OK, heres a stumper! Need help
>Date:   3/6/06 1:55:38 AM Eastern Standard Time
>From:   vze3sngp@verizon.net
>To: vanagon@yahoogroups.com
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>OK, on my 83.5, just swapped out the dash cluster for a dash cluster with a
>tachometer.
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>I am using the same switch block for the parking brake indicator.
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>When I make a left turn with the turnsignal on, the parking brake
>indicator comes on!
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>I am going to check the switch at the brake this week, but I was
>wondering, is there a wire in the steering column that would ground
>parking brake light and cause it to come on?
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>It is probably at the brake lever itself, cause if I cycle the brake
>lever up and down it will go off.
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>Strange gremlin...
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>Keith
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