Tom -
Your brake light switch is going bad. You need to
replace it. That's why you have to stomp on the pedal
to make the brake lights work.
Halogen rear tail lights always break, they are too
sensitive to handling with fingers. I've gone through
half a dozen myself to find a couple that work.
There are now LED tail lights available which I have
been looking into. There is even a chap in England
who makes high intensity LED 1157's in positive ground
if you can believe that! I'd suggest going that way
if you want to improve light coming out the back of
the car...the only thing with the LEDs is they may not
work with a standard flasher... you may need to keep
standard incandescent 1157s on your front turn
signals... unless you switch to a solid state flasher
like I have on my BJ8.
Good luck!
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
--- tom felts <tomfelts@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Anyone else use the halogen tail lights in their
> Healey? I have replaced
> the brake light switch in Sep 02, and now need to
> replace that one. Do you
> think the halogen bulb current flow is affecting the
> brake light switch?
>
> The symptom------I must "stand on" the brake pedal
> before the light comes
> on.
>
> TIA
> Tom
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