Installation

INSTALLATION

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the supplemental restraint system before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor, or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is the only sure way to disable the supplemental restraint system. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.





1. Be certain that the brake lamp switch plunger is pulled all the way out of the switch housing (3) to its fully extended position.
2. Depress and hold the brake pedal in the depressed position.
3. Align the tabs on the brake lamp switch locking collar with the keyed hole in the brake pedal mounting bracket (2), located to the right of the steering column (1) under the instrument panel.
4. Insert the brake lamp switch locking collar through the keyed hole in the mounting bracket until the switch housing is firmly seated against the bracket.
5. Rotate the switch housing counterclockwise about 30 degrees until the locking tab on the switch body fully engages the pedal bracket. Full locking tab engagement will be accompanied by an audible click.

NOTE: Do not pull the brake pedal upwards as this will adjust the switch plunger to an incorrect position. The switch is properly adjusted when the switch plunger is just contacting (no gap) the brake pedal arm with the pedal in the relaxed (released) position.

6. Release the brake pedal from its depressed position to automatically adjust the brake lamp switch plunger.
7. Reconnect the wire harness connector (4) to the brake lamp switch connector receptacle.
8. Reconnect the battery negative cable.