- Dear Scotty, hope this email finds you well. I just want to say how awesome you are and how much you’ve helped me learn so much DIY car maintenance/repair. I’ve lived on a farm my whole life and I’ve gotten really good at trouble shooting tractors, trucks and cars but I’m having a slight problem with one of them.
It’s a 1997 Chevrolet C1500, automatic with 220,000 miles. I don’t have my own scan tool so I don’t know what codes it’s throwing. Here’s the problem everything in the lighting system works well except the brake lights. I’ve replaced a big square fuse in the fuse box in the engine bay multiple times but after 2 weeks or so the break lights stop working again. I can’t find any wires that are exposed causing a short of the brake lights and I’ve also replaced the brake lights wiring system control box connected to the break pedal and the taillight assemblies. Any thoughts on something I’m missing when trying to fix this?
-Best regards Gabe F.
It may be a little but it's not that old it still has computers on it so my voice is if you have power going to the brake light and when you step on the brake light switch power comes out of the brake light switch just run a new wire from the brake light switch back under the truck to the rear brake lights and just rewire them I do that all the time on old vehicles
