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Subject:Re: Checking brake light switch on master cylinder -- '91 GL
From:Jim. Felder
Date:Sun, 22 Sep 2019 20:30:37 -0500

It doesn’t matter how the terminals are installed as long as they are making contact and the circuit is in good shape.
  

  
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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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