[Healeys] Brake light switch

[Alan Schultz]

My advise to anyone having a car equipped with a pressure switch to 
activate the stop lights is to install a mechanical switch at the brake 
pedal that is adjusted to close the N.O. switch with about 1/2 inch of 
pedal travel. As you touch the pedal for braking the stop lights come 
on. Beats the pressure switch hands-down. Makes me much more comfortable 
when someone on a cell phone is tight up to my rear. My panic stop would 
put them in my trunk.

Those tail-gaters also convinced me to install a third high mounted stop 
light incorporated into my luggage rack. Guess I'm paranoid!! ;-)

67BJ8
51JagMKVII
Alan Schultz


Dan Stromquist wrote:
> Now that you mention it-is it normal to have to stomp on the brakes for that
> switch to activate the brake lights and will a new switch work easier or
> not?  It seems to me my lights require to much pedal pressure to activate
> the lights and so I ordered a switch from Moss.