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I ordered the same unit from Julianos but installed it slightly different to Dave's car. I fashioned a little bracket which uses one screw from the cockpit surround and it screws in to the cockpit surround's existing hole - no modifications necessary and can be removed literally in 30 seconds with a screwdriver. Works with the top up or down:
Hi Higgins,
One way would be to tap a new wire into the green/purple wire that runs from the brake switch to the flasher relay and run it directly to the 3rd brake light.
I ordered the same unit from Julianos but installed it slightly different to Dave's car. I fashioned a little bracket which uses one screw from the cockpit surround and it screws in to the cockpit surround's existing hole - no modifications necessary and can be removed literally in 30 seconds with a screwdriver. Works with the top up or down:
Hi Higgins,
One way would be to tap a new wire into the green/purple wire that runs from the brake switch to the flasher relay and run it directly to the 3rd brake light.
Both of my healeys have the third brake light wired this way, but I use a 5 pin relay and also run the brake light wire (that goes from the brake light switch to the flasher relay) off the 5 pin relay as well, this makes the regular brake lights extremely bright.
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