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Old 07-20-2005, 07:43 PM
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So what fixed YOUR brake lights?

Just a poll... But since there's so many possible problems and they'll all mentioned at the same time, I couldn't figure out what's the most common problem...

PS. I'm talking about those "Parking Brake" and "ABS" lights that are on all the time in every other old Dodge...
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I finally unplugged the ECM. The light went right out. :0)
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Nothing has ever gone wrong with mine knock on wood.
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I have'nt figured it out yet. Mine stays on 95% of the time. They ususally come on about 10 seconds after I start it up. Sometimes after I drive it a while then stop and restart, the lights don't come on. It's got to be a bad connection somewhere, I'm suspecting it's at the speedo
sensor, I replaced that plug once already when speedo stopped working. The connection at the abs sensor is clean.
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Mine was on when I got it then I had the bed off putting a flat bed on and saw that the wires going into the rear end were unpluged. So I plugged them in and the light turned off. But then a couple months later the light came back on again. so i'm going to unplug the module.
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I have heard that iron "paste" accumulates on the sensor in the rear differential. The module compares the speedo reading to the ring gear reading -- so when you start driving, once you get over 10mph or so it will kick the error code if the readings don't match. I have been meaning to change the oil in the rear diff and check out/clean up the sendor to see if that solves the problem of "erratic" signals.
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might have to give that a try, not that I care if it really works anyways.
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brake pedal switch thats all
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I unplugged the computer. But last month my son did the front brakes over completely and adjusted the rears...so maybe it's time to plug back in and see what happens.
Jay
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there is a bulletin out there somewhere about bad connections in the firewall that have to be by-passed. seems like it caused 75 percent of the problems. too old to get under dash to try it just unplugged the module.
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