<VV> lm brake light

[mhicks130 at cox.net]

After changing bulbs and fiddling forever with the socket, it occured to me that the turn signal and brake light use the same bulb element AND the turn signal was working just fine so the problem with my non-functional brake light was elsewhere.  A look at the wiring diagrams in the shop manual and especially the wonderful schematic of the turn signal switch in Bob Helt's "The Classic Corvair" pointed me to the real culprit - the turn  signal switch. I'd already fiddled with it twice to get the turn signals to work but appearantly I did in the brake light function doing this.  A little more fiddling with the switch and now I have two, count em two, functioning brake lights as well as fully functional turn signal lights.  

I never thought my brake light wouldn't work because of something in the turn signal switch.  Who'da thunk it?  It makes sense in hindsight.

mike