Brake lights

No new photos today, just an update.

Noticed last week when I stopped at a light that I couldn't see the glow of my brake lights in the chrome of the car behind me, so when I got home I checked; yep, no lights. Started looking around and quickly realized that the wires were brittle, connectors corroded and at least one of the splices (yikes there are a lot of splices in this old wiring loom) was together by a single strand.

Rear end lighting is the last bit of re-wiring I need to do to complete the re-wiring of all the electrical systems. So I'm not surprised the 50 year old wires are not working well. In my digging I realized only one of the brake light switches was even wired in (two hydraulic circuits, front and rear, if one fails you still have the other for braking, so important to have lights as well). That was first fix, followed by replacing the splices and wires all the way back.

Lights working again and with the cool spell this week I'm going out on a run.

Next light related job is replacing the trailer lights on the rear end with period correct lights, and reinstalling the backup lights. Would have done that at same time yesterday but need a much larger drill to open the holes for the wiring connectors on the lights.

Thanks for looking...