One more for my new Bird neighbor.
My neighbor noticed that his brake lamps stay on all the time. He has to disconnect the 2 lead wires under the hood, at the stop light switch on his master cylinder. I told him to replace this pressure switch because they are notorious for going bad & they are cheep enough too.
The one thing he has noticed, is by disconnecting these 2 wires, his stock in dash oil pressure guage starts working. When he plugs these 2 brake light switch wires back in, his oil gauge stops working.
I told him that surely these are on 2 different circuits & something has to be wired incorrectly behind his dash.
Being that I've only worked on my '60 Bird & older Ford's I know nothing about what Ford might have changed by 1964?? My neighbor does have some wiring diagrams printed off for his '64 Bird & I told him it will probably be time to start chasing down these wires behind his dash. The prior owner must have wired something wrong.....?
Any advice is appreciated fellow Birders.
-Jon in TX.
My neighbor noticed that his brake lamps stay on all the time. He has to disconnect the 2 lead wires under the hood, at the stop light switch on his master cylinder. I told him to replace this pressure switch because they are notorious for going bad & they are cheep enough too.
The one thing he has noticed, is by disconnecting these 2 wires, his stock in dash oil pressure guage starts working. When he plugs these 2 brake light switch wires back in, his oil gauge stops working.
I told him that surely these are on 2 different circuits & something has to be wired incorrectly behind his dash.
Being that I've only worked on my '60 Bird & older Ford's I know nothing about what Ford might have changed by 1964?? My neighbor does have some wiring diagrams printed off for his '64 Bird & I told him it will probably be time to start chasing down these wires behind his dash. The prior owner must have wired something wrong.....?
Any advice is appreciated fellow Birders.
-Jon in TX.
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