MG MGB and MGB GT Tech Talk
I know at least a few of y'all have done that ... I temporarily made my dysfunctional brake fail lite into a stoplite monitor. Nice but sometimes I'm so focused on gauges, sounds, smells, etc at startups I forget the e'brake and I hate doing that. What kind of switch is rig-able to the e'brake; a microswitch from Radio Shack or something like that? And where does it go - thanks!
~Marco and PLT~
Dare I say, I told you so?
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Didn't make a whole lot of sense to me when you brought it up the first time, still doesn't make a lot of sense. How about keeping the break failure warning light as a brake failure warning light and just rigging up some little LED to tell you that you neglected to release the e-brake.
Another light's fine with me, yo, I'd like to keep the monitor; maybe someone will enlighten me re what kind of e'brake switch and where to mount it. Is that leaky pressure switch I ditched even available??? I haven't seen one.
If you get a later handbrake assembly there is a switch already mounted in it for a handbrake warning light.
I am just asking out of curiosity, how is this a problem? When you start to move you should be able to tell the E-brake is engaged.
Marco
It seems to me the 76 must have that later switch they are tlaking about. Although I never new there was a difference. When my E brake is engaged the warning light is on. I thought that was normal. I have never seen the light come on when I would brake. But then it wouldn't take someone long to notice something is wrong with the brakes. I like the light on when E brake is engaged, It would stop you from stretching out your cable.
Ken
yes, the 76's have a switch on the handle. When I rewired my car I rerouted wires to the switch then to the light.
Also, yes the brake warning lights switch is available, but at the price of about 50 bucks, I thought it was pointless to buy it and wire it back up. I don't need a light to tell me the brakes are bad or going bad, I can tell that easily. As to wiring up the light to parking brake, well, sometimes not everyone thinks properly.
Thanks Ken and Duane :) I'll research fitting a late e'brake handle, or maybe the switch is mountable to the existing one; we'll see. Meantime I'm OK with the monitor thing I wired, so I know the 40 yr old stoplight switch is working. It was stuck when I got the car; a cleaning and lube fixed it. I have a new spare one but it sure looks flimsy and cheap.
As for the original purpose of the fail light; I had FOUR cars with the exact same system (2 BMW 2-series, 1 Alfa Spider, 1 '68 MGB RD) and every one of'em did nothing but leak and eat paint. Like I need a light to tell me the brake pedal's hit the floor?