Just finished with my 5 lug swap and M/C replacement.

Went to pick up the car from the alignment shop and noticed that the brake lights stay on all the time.

Any thoughts?

Adjust your brake light switch(under pedal board).

there should be a reset switch on the MC
Found IT
Gint posted the link to some pics at the end of the thread

The reset switch would not keep the brakelights on.

I thought the m/c reset was just for the light in the dash?

Does it also affect the tails?

sorry, i thought you were referring to the dash light
not sure about the tail. is the pedal coming all the way back?

also, inside the pedal assembly, which would have been removed to replace the M/C, there is a little metal piece that actuates the lights. sometimes it gets a little tweeked, and ends up on the wrong side of the little pole thingy (not sure the proper term )

He's a turkey....not a pole.

I didn't pull the pedal assembly to swap the m/c.

sorry, i thought you had to loosen it on top to remove the M/C.
anyway, the little pole thing from the assembly is what presses into the M/C
and the actuator is on the pole

I'll pull the pedal board tomorrow and check out the switch...

When I put my 19mm M/C in my 72 I had to adjust the brake light switch. When

you pull the M/C it does release the brake pedal and it can sneak past the actuator

on the switch, CHECK IT.

Allan, been a LONG time since I messed with a stock pedal setup... the "bar" that goes into the master that the pedal pushes on - is that adjustable? I would think so... maybe that needs adjusted longer to allow the pedal to fully return I can't remember, but it doesn't take much pedal motion to activate the switch for the lights.

Or maybe the switch just "went" and internally grounded and you just now noticed it - though that is unlikely.

Clueless You wear pink too!

Anyway...since you replaced the MC, see if the brake lights go out if you pull back on the pedal. If they go out, your microswitch set screw is out of adjustment or the return spring on the pedal assembly is broken.

this is a pic of the little actuator that slips past the pole tab


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Give that Trojan a see-gar!

The "obvious" way to arrange the switch and the big washer that pushes on it is the wrong way. The switch is spring-loaded so that the lights come on, when the brake pedal comes back it pulls the lever on the switch to turn out the lights.

As for terminology: The thing that presses on the master cylinder piston (and the part that has the washer on it) is called the "brake pedal pushrod" or "brake pushrod".

--DD

THANKS GUYS!!!!

Pulled the pedal board and found that the lever for the switch was bent and had come off of the washer.

Werks Gud now.

I also found out that I don't have a throttle pedal stop on the pedal board though...