FishTown
TLCA Member #29560
Been a long while since I’ve posted on here. I’m working on an issue with @swingoftheaxe ’s FJ62 that we picked up a couple months ago.
I’ll start at the beginning - a couple weeks ago, his brake lights were not turning off. I met up with him and started thumping around at the brake light switch thinking it had gone bad. I was able to get his brake lights to turn off with some wire jiggling. However, now they won’t come back on. We didn’t research the issue first and just immediately bought a new brake light switch. After doing some reading it looks like it may have just been a pedal position issue. I’ve tested his old and his new used switch on my cruiser and they both function properly. But we’re not getting power at the brake light socket. We are getting power to the brake light switch itself. The PO installed wiring for a trailer - he doesn’t need this anytime soon so I’m going to sort of reverse engineer it back to stock to eliminate that as an issue. I’m NOT an electrical guy. I hate dealing with it and don’t have a great understanding of how it works, but I know I have to work my way upstream to see where the loss of power is. If anyone has any suggestions, I’d greatly appreciate it. Starting to dismantle trailer lights right now.
I should also mention that running tail lights and reverse lights are working.
I’ll start at the beginning - a couple weeks ago, his brake lights were not turning off. I met up with him and started thumping around at the brake light switch thinking it had gone bad. I was able to get his brake lights to turn off with some wire jiggling. However, now they won’t come back on. We didn’t research the issue first and just immediately bought a new brake light switch. After doing some reading it looks like it may have just been a pedal position issue. I’ve tested his old and his new used switch on my cruiser and they both function properly. But we’re not getting power at the brake light socket. We are getting power to the brake light switch itself. The PO installed wiring for a trailer - he doesn’t need this anytime soon so I’m going to sort of reverse engineer it back to stock to eliminate that as an issue. I’m NOT an electrical guy. I hate dealing with it and don’t have a great understanding of how it works, but I know I have to work my way upstream to see where the loss of power is. If anyone has any suggestions, I’d greatly appreciate it. Starting to dismantle trailer lights right now.
I should also mention that running tail lights and reverse lights are working.
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