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Foretravel Motorhome Forums => Foretravel Discussions => Topic started by: Mike on May 21, 2011, 09:09:22 pm

Title: brake lights
Post by: Mike on May 21, 2011, 09:09:22 pm
so i got to take her out for a drive today eveything went fine un tell i push on the brakes. when i do all the marker lights on her light up with the brake lights. any one have a problem like this
Title: Re: brake lights
Post by: Kent Speers on May 21, 2011, 09:43:31 pm
so i got to take her out for a drive today eveything went fine un tell i push on the brakes. when i do all the marker lights on her light up with the brake lights. any one have a problem like this

Stuff like that is usually an indication of a ground problem unless someone has messed with the 12V wiring. Thoroughly clean the chassis ground and any other ground wires related to the lights.
Title: Re: brake lights
Post by: Dave M (RIP) on May 21, 2011, 11:44:31 pm
Providing you have a wiring diagram, this should not be a biggie, like has been mentioned, grounding, but also you are simply gettring a feed back through the brake light switch would be my initial guess.  BUT who knows what creative mods have been experminted with on that coach ??
Could be simply a bad wiring issue in the brake light bulb wiring area, start looking at the wiring in the brake light bulb wiring behind the lens.  Sounds interesting / simple  ;D

Also by removing both brake light bulbs at rear of coach, see if the marker lights still  light up when use brake pedal ? Look at bulb sockets...
Title: Re: brake lights
Post by: Pierce & Gaylie Stewart on May 22, 2011, 12:12:23 am
Agree, bad ground. Try a temporary wire up to the lights from ground to check. How about the turn signals?

Pierce & Gaylie
'93 U300/36

Title: Re: brake lights
Post by: Dave M (RIP) on May 22, 2011, 08:40:04 am
Another possibility could be related to the trailer wiring plug, have seen some real interesting (creative) engineering in that area too that did not work.
Title: Re: brake lights
Post by: Mike on May 22, 2011, 09:57:38 am
the blinkers seem to be fine and i removed the trailor wiring mess