brake light switch activator - where is it?!

[zebedee]

http://www.sandsmuseum.com/cars/elise/experience/m...

I thought it was going to be under the dash in the footwell area, which is all I had time to check this AM in the filty weather but apparently not, so is it in the front compartment or behind the dash and do you need to remove stuff to get to it? I've never noticed it before, but need to make an adjustment.

[zebedee]

just noticed this is likely to be an s2 from the links elsewhere on the site but presume it would be the same on the s1

[kambites]

You can see it in this picture:



It's facing away from the camera, just to the left of the brake pedal return spring.

[thegreenhell]

From memory, on an S1 it's quite easily accessible from the front compartment behind the brake fluid reservoir. You just need to twist the switch, set the height, then twist it back to lock the position. Some trial and error will quickly give the correct height to set it to.

[zebedee]

Thanks guys

Kambites - is that an s2? If accessible from the front cover on an s1 then presumably it can't be there?!

[kambites]

I think that is an S2, yes. A LHD one too, although I suspect the pedal box is the same.

I guess the S1 and S2 may differ, or it's possible that the Toyota and K-series engined cars differ; or both.

[kambites]

Here you go:

http://elise.bidouille.info/docs/LotusEliseS1-Serv...

Page 332.

[Thorburn]

Some pictures here showing where it is on the S1: http://arc.seloc.org/viewthread.php?tid=309989&amp...

[zebedee]

cheers guys, I'm not a SELOC member so can't see that, but hopefully it is accessible from the footwell given the service guide exploded diagram, seems it is just at a bit of a funny angle which is why I didn't see it first time. Was too cold to start fumbling about for it at the weekend and I don't intent to install myself down there until I am ready to get the job done and swap the throttle pedal linkage too as there can be few less comfortable automotive tasks!

[Thorburn]

If you're looking in the footwell then you're in the wrong place for an S1.

Copy and pasted from my old post, although it doesn't cost anything to sign up to view stuff.

1) Open bonnet



2) Looking in towards the top of the pedal box



3) Closer in, it's the bit with the purple and white leads running in to it.



Twist it a quarter turn to unlock it, then pull it back out a little (I think) and twist back to lock it. Keep fiddling until the brake light comes on as soon you touch the brake pedal.

[kambites]

You'll be able to see the switch end of the unit in the foot well, but it needs to be released/adjusted from the other side of the pedal box skin.

[zebedee]

legends, thanks you so much!

[zebedee]

So I have found it, pulled it out and it has a white shaft inside it. Principle seems different to theone at the start of the link in that the white bit is fixed it seems in that although it slides in and out on a spring, I don't think it would respond well to be extracted further. So is it the how far you push the whole assembly into the hole in the chassis before twisting it that sets the gap.? Only I have pushed it in as far as it will go, twisted, and now I have no brake lights at all in ignition position 2

[zebedee]

Doh. So it defaults to on, so actually no lights is pushed in too far, all sorted now.