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Subject:Re: Checking brake light switch on master cylinder -- '91 GL
From:Jim. Felder
Date:Sun, 22 Sep 2019 20:32:33 -0500

Your 84 and 91 are virtually identical. You will probably have to remove both the cluster and the steering column cover to see the switches on the master cylinder.

Jim

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> On Sep 22, 2019 at 6:50 PM,  <John H. Lauterbach (mailto:john@jhl.mgacoxmail.com)>  wrote:
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>  My Vanagon is due back later this week for final parts to be replaced on braking
> system. I noticed that I no longer have rear brake lights. Everything else on
> the rear light clusters works so I suspect that the when the master cylinder was
> replaced, the connection to the brake lights was not put on correctly. Is there
> an easy way to get to the switch without taking the instrument cluster out? I
> remember doing this on my '84, but on first try there does not appear a way on
> the '91 to see the if the wires are connected correctly. Any help on this would
> be most appreciated.
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> Thank you,
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> John
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