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Visitor, 1.8L 4 Cylinder, Los Angeles, CA, April 27, 2010, 21:52

How to change a brake light switch for a 1999 Toyota Corolla?

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    patrick mannion from Greg Solow's Engine Room, April 27, 2010, 22:16
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    It is important to adjust it correctly if you set it up with insufficient clearance the brakes will drag and burn out a clutch or warp the brake rotors. Remove the old brake light switch at the pedal, replace the switch I think the jamb nut is 14mm, I adjust it with the engine running screw the switch in until until depressing the pedal makes the brake lights work when the brake pedal is depressed 3/3 of an inch. Make sure the brake lights are not on al the time but yet do not cause the brakes to drag once they get warm.

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    Visitor, June 27, 2011, 11:01

    That don't tell where it is....

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