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When you say 'brake lamp', do you mean the light that lights up when you have the e-brake engaged?



Yep, that's one. It also glows a nice cherry red when the rear brake fluid is gone.

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I would pull the gauge cluster and verify the voltage regulator (little box on back) is well-grounded...



That's what I was afraid of. Poop. No way of getting around it, I can't run a test jumper to ground out something? A temporary fix I can use permanently?

This car suffers from "Previous Owner Syndrome" because the homeboy "refinished" the dash assembly as well as a number of other choice "repairs".