No brake lights

[YerDugliness]

Originally Posted by Dwight

we have four or five Cobras in our group with the pressure switch for the rear brake lights. They do not come on till the switch reads 35 PSI. A lot of times they can apply the brakes and the lights do not come on.
A couple of them are going to go with the pedal switch.

I have 36,000 miles on mine and it works!

Dwight

Surprisingly, I may have solved the problem.

I crawled under the dash yesterday to glue some sort of a "shim" under the part that frequently falls out of position...it is loose enough that if I push it up into position with my finger, as soon as I take my finger away it just falls back down into a position that will not make contact with the plunger. I needed a shim of about 3/8" thickness...crawled out from under the dash and headed for the cabinet in the garage to look for a plastic carpentry shim to cut to size when I realized I was walking on a perfect material for the job, some of that foam pad type garage flooring that just clips together. I had a hunk in the cabinet, so I took a razor blade to it and cut it to shape. Once I had lodged it (no glue needed) between the offending contact pad and the brake pedal lever, the pad stayed in place. I took it out for a test drive, cannot duplicate the problem now. I think the issue is resolved ....as they say, necessity is the mother of invention

Originally Posted by winnipaw

I know what you mean about that funky brake light switch. I tightened the whole assembly and lubed the pivot pin. It seemed to help alot. Unlike you, I am OK with the brakes on my car. There is always room for improvement on brakes but so far so good. I'm waiting for your results. You have a much better system than I have. Still looking for my rear lights to come alive.

Winnipaw, I'll keep you posted on the progress on the brakes. I spoke with the Wilwood rep the other day, got the part numbers for the O-rings for the pistons to rebuild the 4-piston calipers, and I have sourced a decent 1" diameter piston 'Vette style master cylinder. I'll probably perform the upgrade over a weekend sometime in November....October seems to be QUITE full on the weekends for now.

Cheers!

Dugly