Thread: Change Your Brake Switch Now!!

I have one in my spares but I’m one to replace known problematic gear before failure, so I might do mine this afternoon and recondition the old one for the spares cab.

You and me both DJ, that's why I changed stuff like axles/driven ends on the Puma (for sale) because they are a known weakness and I don't like things going wrong especially on bush runs.
We never had anything other than superficial glitches on any of our cars and that's the way I like it. Little things like that switch can make life hard.
AlanH.

7E5Z13480A. It's actually a Motorcraft part (SW6572). If you're not in a hurry it looks like you can get them a bit cheaper on Ebay.

From the FB page

Mine was clean as a whistle. Yes it’s only 7 years old but has nearly 250k km under its belt. I swapped it anyhow and put the old one back into the spares box (once I found the spring and mechanism that blew apart over the garage floor lol.
It’s actually a really cool switch. It has an inbuilt mechanism to set the correct brake light free play. When you insert it it sets the correct switch depth position. When you then turn it to engage it, a mechanism engages to lock it into the correct position. This avoids the old days of setting the switch height manually, trying to measure a gap of 1.5mm under the dash.

So is there a method to remove the old one without the spring escaping?

Its failure is reasonably common on both D3 and D4, on the D4 its does weird things such as causing the front brakes to partially apply.

Regards
Daz

Originally Posted by LRD414

So is there a method to remove the old one without the spring escaping?

Oh it only came apart because I wanted to see inside it and what state it was in. It comes out of the car simply with a twist.