brake lights are in my dash?

[dietzdiggler]

When I mash the brake pedal the two dash lights light up. They also flash with the turn signals when I use the emergency flashers. Of course there are no brake lights. What I have done recently is bypass the ammeter by simply splicing the two wires to it together. I also removed the headlight switch and put it back in. All the wires to it are run to the right place. I replaced the dimmer switch and thats it. I don't really know where to look. I just found it today and don't know if it was doing this when I bought it or is it something I caused. Could the headlight switch have a short? heres a link to my build thread viewtopic.php?f=34&t=28925&start=40 and here's the diagram....

[john]

Sounds like light fixtures aren't grounded. Your getting a feed back loop. Same thing happened to my 67 several years ago.

[Nuthinbutmopar]

Could also be a problem in the turn signal switch. If you're not getting power to the brake light wires at the rear, it's definitely in the t/s switch, if you do have power back there, it's a ground issue as mentioned above.

[dietzdiggler]

ended up doing both, turn signal switch was bad (caused multiple other problems) but tail lights still didn't work, ground strap from bed to frame fixed that.