911 SC Brake Warning Light stays on
06-15-2013, 08:03 AM
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911 SC Brake Warning Light stays on
911 SC Brake Warning Light stays on
G'day, this my first post as i usually find my answer to my problem and i thought i had but no, this one is a mystery to me.
1978 911 SC RHD (Australian car) the Brake warning light is now staying on (not the handbrake or emergency brake light as it also know). Now I've only had the car a few weeks and i'm slowly but surly fixing up all the things the PO neglected or didn't get time to do.
I had recently replaced the pedal box bushes (what a fun job getting that thing in and outs !) anyway, i noticed the brake and clutch pedals were not aligned and the brake pedal was sitting forward, jumped on here found out what to do and fixed it up in 30 min, went for a test drive and no problems.
Later when I was going to drop my wife off i noticed the Brake warning light was staying on? At first it though it was just the fluid level sensor on the M/C reservoir ... nope all good there? A quick search on the i phone brought up a few posts about the M/C pressure switches... AHH! thats what it will be, so I disconnected them but to no avail the light was still on...
Is there something else that can put that light on? any suggestion welcome.
Mike
G'day, this my first post as i usually find my answer to my problem and i thought i had but no, this one is a mystery to me.
1978 911 SC RHD (Australian car) the Brake warning light is now staying on (not the handbrake or emergency brake light as it also know). Now I've only had the car a few weeks and i'm slowly but surly fixing up all the things the PO neglected or didn't get time to do.
I had recently replaced the pedal box bushes (what a fun job getting that thing in and outs !) anyway, i noticed the brake and clutch pedals were not aligned and the brake pedal was sitting forward, jumped on here found out what to do and fixed it up in 30 min, went for a test drive and no problems.
Later when I was going to drop my wife off i noticed the Brake warning light was staying on? At first it though it was just the fluid level sensor on the M/C reservoir ... nope all good there? A quick search on the i phone brought up a few posts about the M/C pressure switches... AHH! thats what it will be, so I disconnected them but to no avail the light was still on...
Is there something else that can put that light on? any suggestion welcome.
Mike
06-15-2013, 04:52 PM
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Those didn't show up until the 3.2L cars.
As far as the pressure switches, aren't they in the normally open position? You have to jump them to close the circuit. (Or maybe my memory is all fuzzy since it's been pushing 20 years since I've had to deal with "little stuff" on torsion bar cars.)
As far as the pressure switches, aren't they in the normally open position? You have to jump them to close the circuit. (Or maybe my memory is all fuzzy since it's been pushing 20 years since I've had to deal with "little stuff" on torsion bar cars.)
06-15-2013, 10:25 PM
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Hmmm.... Well a sort of solution was found, I disconnected the battery which I read somewhere else resets the fault, which it did, so it appears I do have a faulty or possibly 2 brake light switches.. More items for the parts list, at least these ones are cheap
Thanks all for the replies...
Thanks all for the replies...
06-17-2013, 09:52 AM
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Hmmm.... Well a sort of solution was found, I disconnected the battery which I read somewhere else resets the fault, which it did, so it appears I do have a faulty or possibly 2 brake light switches.. More items for the parts list, at least these ones are cheap
Thanks all for the replies...
Thanks all for the replies...
