Brake light stays on

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07-21-2005, 06:43 AM

rmrc

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Brake light stays on

The truck has been sitting for the last week or so. When I started her up yesterday, the brake light on the dash stayed on.

Brake fluid is OK, the parking brake is fully released, brakes work fine.

Any ideas or suggestions??????

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07-21-2005, 07:36 AM

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Is the ABS light on? Does the speedo work?

Possibly it's the sensor on the rear axel. There is a thread going on this now:
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...brake+light+on

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07-21-2005, 08:33 AM

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You can reset the light by a really hard push on the service brake pedal.

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07-21-2005, 09:51 AM

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The ABS light is off and the speedo works. I'm at work now but I'll try and set the service brake to it's maximum this afternoon.

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07-22-2005, 06:38 PM

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Mine's doing the same...about a week ago it started doing it and I could pull up on the parking brake and it would go out...just too lazy to crawl under the dash and check out the switch...now it stays on all the time...