push button/tailights

["Rog & Jan van Hoy" <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tail lights are different than brake lights.  If the latter,
the switch is a likely culprit.  If the former...?

--Roger van Hoy, '55DeSoto, '42DeSoto, '66Plymouth,
'73Duster, '81 Imperial, Washougal, WA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy J. LaPean" <pctocso@xxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: IML: push button/tailights


| I know that this sounds weird but... if it is only the
| tailights and nothing else that is lighting up.  Your
| problem is quite possibly with the brakes.  The brake
| light switch on my sixty, and presumably the 59's too,
| is a pressure actived switch that srews into the under
| side of the master cylinder.  If that is the problem,
| it means either that the switch is bad (which seems
| unlikely to me but who knows ((if it is toast, you can
| probably get one from oldmoparts.com))) or that for
| some reason that there is more pressure in your brake
| lines than there should be when they are at rest.  I
| hope that that helps.  Oh and to test it I'd just
| carefull disconnect the wire(s) on the brake light
| switch, reconnect the battery and see if the tailights
| are still on.
|
| Timothy
|
| 1960 Custom Southampton 4DR "Virgil"
|
|
| Now
| > my tail lights won't go off. They stay lit, but
| > dimmer than the regular
| > setting, so I have to pull the battery cable every
| > time I park. I suppose
| > this could be a good theft deterrent, along with the
| > push buttons. Anyone
| > have any ideas on the tail lights? Thanks again,
| > Bill Melichar 1959 Crown
| > Coupe
| >
|
|
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