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> Brain Trust Help needed on Parking Brake Light, Parking Brake Light Always on......
Gatornapper
post Jul 4 2025, 07:40 PM
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Once again need the help of the great 914 Brain Trust here........

My Parking Brake Light stays on all the time.

The switch is fairly new and it is functioning properly.

Disconnecting the brown (ground) wire to the switch, it has no continuity or resistance to ground. So it is not "grounded out" somewhere.

I see in my great 914 electrical schematic of the ground circuit for the switch and light that there are two diodes in the circuit.

I am guessing that one of them failed.

Can anyone tell me where these two diodes are located?

Or where else the problem might be?

As always,

TIA,

GN
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post Jul 5 2025, 12:10 PM
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QUOTE(BillC @ Jul 5 2025, 12:05 PM) *

QUOTE(Gatornapper @ Jul 5 2025, 12:47 PM) *

What is "MC"?

"MC" is short for Master Cylinder.


Yea that flashing bulb is not just the E-brake warning light - it's also the Master Cylinder warning light. So the non-stop flashing could be from either circuits going to the bulb. You can pull one at a time and see if the light stops blinking. Alternately you could pull the wires off the MC itself.
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