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I'll check the switch under the brakes. What I meant to say is when I depress the brake pedal the rear brake lights do not brighten to signal that I am stopping.
As to the circuit, it's the one in the engine bay, maybe relay board is better terminology. A mechanic I had told me that the whole board was bad. He removed the voltage regulator and removed a blue wire from the large bundle of wires in the plug and directly plug the wire into the spot where the regulator had been. Since it was winter, I didn't peruse it much but did notice that the driving, yellow light on the driver side was out and that it wouldn't signal.
As the snow is melting, I decided to look into this, hoping to get the car ready for spring and summer drives. I discovered his "wiring" and I had also bought a couple of replacement boards from eBay hoping 1 would work. (This is another story, since those boards don't work and have less contacts for one of the cable plug bundles.). So, I pulled the board off to look at it and discovered there was no voltage regulator. I inspected the board and the potting is all in place. I repaired the "wiring" plugged everything back up and the car actually is running even better than when I put it into the garage last fall. Unfortunately this didn't fix the driving light. I discovered the brake light issue today and have no idea if it is related to the board or regulator change or not.
My weakness is wiring. I've looked at the diagrams on this site but they have just confused me. I'd love to know what all of the relays are for on the board. 2 slots are empty on the board in the engine and 1 slot is empty on the board attached to the fuse panel.
I'm not sure my mechanic who did a great job on the engine was too good at wiring either.
Thanks for the advice. I hope to look into the Switch on Tuesday night.
Joe
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