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Beautiful. Did you tell her she owes Lash $20?
Fluid level on a 4runner will illuminate that. Maybe fiddle with the parking brake.
That should be the brake fluid level sensor if it isn't the parking brake . You could try unplugging it and see if it goes off.
MScruiser
obsessive-compulsive oppositional-defiant wise-ass
This is what I was going to say. IIRC, I read somewhere that the light is connected to 2 different sources, 1 being the fluid level sensor, and the other to something else. Try disconnecting the 2 sensor wires from the bottom of the master cylinder, and see if that makes them turn off. Then you could at least narrow things down.
On that year 40 it shouldn't be related to the fluid level. It should only come on if the brake pedal is pressed or the parking brake is set. If it's staying on all the time I'd unplug the parking brake switch.
Bodean
Hot Damn
Just needs adjusting.
Bodean
Hot Damn
Jeff...adjusting how?
euclid
SILVER Star
I think there's a little switch under the dash that is engaged when the pedal is all the way up, and dis-engaged when you push the pedal. If I remember correctly there is adjustment for the pedal height that has an effect on that switch.
The e brake on my 60 is the ignition switch.
Ok weird stuff here...
The other day when I pulled in garage the 40 was so sluggish from the ebrake being stuck engaged it would barely move. I got out and put it in neutral and couldn't push it at all. Adjusted the bolt on the drum, both ways, zero results. Drum was scorching hot to the touch. Figured I had to dig in so I left it alone.
Was out there tonight and on a whim tried to roll the 40, and it moved effortlessly. Almost rolled it into the garage door.
What gives???
The other day when I pulled in garage the 40 was so sluggish from the ebrake being stuck engaged it would barely move. I got out and put it in neutral and couldn't push it at all. Adjusted the bolt on the drum, both ways, zero results. Drum was scorching hot to the touch. Figured I had to dig in so I left it alone.
Was out there tonight and on a whim tried to roll the 40, and it moved effortlessly. Almost rolled it into the garage door.
What gives???
Things swell when they get hot. You just need to back it off a little and try it again.
It feels like that's the issue Bossman but I've rebuilt it and it tried adjusting it every way possible. Maybe (probably) I have something wrong in the drum? For some reason no matter what I do to the bolt it makes no difference in brake grip.
Take the drum off and shoot a pic?
