Parking brake light flashing occasionally while driving...
12-28-2006, 11:54 AM
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Parking brake light flashing occasionally while driving...
I did a search and found the following, but don't know if this is referring to the brake light *not* illuminating when setting the e-brake, or if it is referring to my current problem. In the last few weeks, every time I go for a drive, the "!" light and the parking brake light flash momentarily while I'm driving. I'm not touching the e-brake handle, and the light stays for only a second or two, but it's flashing every few minutes while I'm driving. Anybody had this happen recently? Thanks,
Rick
My parking brake light has become intermittant, and after doing a search here I removed the console and found the a loose ground wire with a y shaped metal connector attached to it. The brake handle has a metal contact at the end that most make a pressure contact. Where does the other piece attach? It has me stumped. One end of the connector has a ledge/catch on the end.thanks,rich
The brake is held to the tunnel with a bracket attached with 4x13mm bolts. At the rear end of this bracket, its shaped like a U. Inside this U is a plastic piece with a copper contact that hits the contact on the end of the brake handle itself. The piece inside the U is held in place by a 7mm bolt from the passenger side. The wire attached to this piece from the rear. tim
Rick
My parking brake light has become intermittant, and after doing a search here I removed the console and found the a loose ground wire with a y shaped metal connector attached to it. The brake handle has a metal contact at the end that most make a pressure contact. Where does the other piece attach? It has me stumped. One end of the connector has a ledge/catch on the end.thanks,rich
The brake is held to the tunnel with a bracket attached with 4x13mm bolts. At the rear end of this bracket, its shaped like a U. Inside this U is a plastic piece with a copper contact that hits the contact on the end of the brake handle itself. The piece inside the U is held in place by a 7mm bolt from the passenger side. The wire attached to this piece from the rear. tim
12-28-2006, 12:06 PM
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There is a contact that supplies a ground to the light when the hand brake lever is pulled up.
Yours has probably slipped out and while driving it will occasionaly touch something that will create a ground- lighting the bulb.
I had posted a few pictures in a thread a couple of years ago, but the pics are not showing now for some resason.
The metal contact fits in a channel in a plastic block. It will have to be reinserted.
Yours has probably slipped out and while driving it will occasionaly touch something that will create a ground- lighting the bulb.
I had posted a few pictures in a thread a couple of years ago, but the pics are not showing now for some resason.
The metal contact fits in a channel in a plastic block. It will have to be reinserted.
12-28-2006, 12:34 PM
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found the jpegs on an old hard drive:
the last photo shows the black plastic piece that the metal contact slides into, and how the metal piece on the lever itself contacts it. Hint: make sure the park brake lever is off (down) when trying to reinsert contact into block.
good luck,
max
the last photo shows the black plastic piece that the metal contact slides into, and how the metal piece on the lever itself contacts it. Hint: make sure the park brake lever is off (down) when trying to reinsert contact into block.
good luck,
max
