[Mgs] Brake lights kaput ....again

Max Heim max_heim at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jan 21 11:51:03 MST 2008


I bought the Moss part (Lucas box) from our local supplier. I wanted to get
it done over the weekend since rain was predicted all week.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 1/21/08 10:16 AM, Carl French at leylandauto at yahoo.com wrote:

> Did you end up going with Moss, NAPA or Volvo dealer?
>   Carl
> 
> Max Heim <max_heim at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>   Well, I took the path of least resistance and just bought the replacement
> switch. I tucked in some paper towels around it, and leaned a 24" length of
> 4x6 on the pedal to provide slight positive pressure. Hardly lost any fluid,
> doesn't seem to have introduced any air.
> 
> Addressing some of the other comments, I have not installed halogen bulbs,
> and I have always used Castrol LMA brake fluid, exclusively. So I am pretty
> much convinced the switches just have poor life expectancy.
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
> 
> 
> on 1/21/08 6:24 AM, Bob Howard at mgbob at juno.com wrote:
> 
>> Max,
>> TDs use a similar switch. It's generally thought that replacement
>> switches these days are not as robust as the original switches. Perhaps
>> they are--perhaps they are not, but as many owners have installed halogen
>> bulbs, the load on the switches has increased. In an effort to extend
>> the life of the switches, many have installed a relay. In TDs, it's
>> easy and inconspicuous, and it wouldn't be difficult in the early MGB.
>> Bob
>> 
>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:01:53 -0800 Max Heim
>> writes:
>>> Last night I noticed my brake lights were inoperative. I'm sure it's
>>> the
>>> goofy pressure switch again. The things only seem to last a year or
>>> so.
>>> Maybe Moss could come up with a kit to install a
>>> brake-pedal-actuated
>>> contact switch instead.
>>> 
>>> It's not the expense (since it's cheap), or the hassle (since it's
>>> totally
>>> simple), it's the risk of letting air into the brake system every
>>> time.
>>> Bleeding brakes on the B is quite tedious.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Max Heim
>>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires


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