{"id":3804,"date":"2018-02-22T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2018-02-22T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T11:00:30","slug":"my-truck-brake-light-switch-wiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/my-truck-brake-light-switch-wiring\/","title":{"rendered":"My Truck: Brake Light Switch Wiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2018\/02\/05\/house-wiring-in-cars\/\">a previous post<\/a>, my 1990 Ford F-250 has had its wiring hacked together by previous owners. Recently this came to light again as my brake lights stopped working.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3806\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_20180206_163142.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20180206_163142\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I figured that because both weren&#8217;t working, it was probably a problem with the brake light switch, or the wiring for it. A quick look under the dash found that the power wire to the brake pedal switch had been replaced. The new wire was a green solid core piece of home wiring, and it was unceremoniously shoved into an empty slot in the fuse box. This led to a loose connection and caused my brake lights to stop working.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3807\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_20180206_165117.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20180206_165117\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was an easy fix. I simply ran a new wire from the battery, and included a fuse. Now I&#8217;m at least a little bit more confident in my truck&#8217;s wiring, though there&#8217;s still a rat&#8217;s nest of wires and butt connectors under the dashboard I don&#8217;t really want to look at.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in a previous post, my 1990 Ford F-250 has had its wiring hacked together by previous owners. Recently this came to light again as my brake lights stopped working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[28,33,45],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-car","tag-diagnosis","tag-electrical","tag-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}