SWITCH, Stop Lamp: Installation: Installation
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2011 RAM Pickup and 2011 RAM Cab & Chassis. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
WARNING:
To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) 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 SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.
- Be certain that the brake lamp switch (2) plunger is pulled all the way out of the switch housing to its fully extended position.
- Depress and hold the brake pedal in the depressed position.
- Align the keyed locking collar on the brake lamp switch with the keyed square hole in the switch mounting bracket (3) on the lower steering column (1) support bracket.
- Insert the brake lamp switch locking collar through the keyed hole in the switch mounting bracket until the switch housing is firmly seated against the bracket.
- Rotate the switch housing clockwise about 30 degrees to engage the locking collar with the switch mounting bracket.
- Release the brake pedal. The pedal will set the plunger to the correct position as the pedal pushes the plunger into the switch housing. The switch plunger will make a light audible ratcheting noise as it self-adjusts.
- Reconnect the instrument panel wire harness connector to the brake lamp switch.
- Reconnect the battery negative cable.