Had enough, brake switch.

Sorry for your troubles.

Off the top of my head ...

I have never heard of such a failure rate for a simple brake switch.

On the other hand, I have often heard of our cars displaying weird and hard-to-track-down electrical issues.

I am not aware of a simple on-the-bench test to verify if a brake switch is still operating as designed.

With that said ....

Where are you sourcing your switches from? Pantera vendor or ???

WHAT leads you to believe the switches are at fault?

Have you checked all brake light wiring connections? Especially, have you confirmed clean and tight ground connections for your tail lights? Have you inspected your brake light bulbs for broken filaments? Swapped in known good bulbs?? With a helper, have you checked the operation of the switch, at the switch, with a multimeter?

Thousands of Panteras are using totally stock systems without any problems.

Yes, you can adapt another switch to the task, fabricating a bracket and re-routing the brake system wiring.

But why reinvent the wheel when the original has no design flaws?

As a retired IBEW Inside Wireman, I know trouble shooting electrical can be a time consuming PITA.

Invest time to find the stock system problem?

Invest time to create a work-around to a system that needs none?

Its your time. But I vote for trouble shooting, fixing and retaining the stock system.

Larry

They are stock switches from Wilkinson. There is power to the switch and you can jump across the terminals and the brake light works.
If you do a search on here for brake light switch there is 10 pages of people bitchin about the brake switch, many have gone to a mechanical switch.
This is 2 switches in a year, I don't want to worry about it and give someone a reason to damage my car or have a cop stop me for no lights.

Here is a pic of mine. I don't know what kind of switch it is but it has worked fine for the last 13+ years I have had the car. The cable loop hanging down is the manual hood release.
PM me if you need bigger pics.
Mike

Another view.

When I got my Hall's Pantera brake kit it came with a mechanical switch triggered by the pedal. It was a POS that was constantly not closing its contacts. I replaced it with a microswitch. I went down to photograph how I mounted it and found that I must have replaced it with a switch similar to the Hall's one. This was over 10 years ago and can't remember why I did that. Anyway here's a picture of the mounting. Quite simple. I think the switches, or something quite similar, are available at most auto parts stores. Or Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Standard...plight/dp/B000CPK39G

Oops, stand on your head

Thanks for the help and photo's..

Your pic is a lot better Richard. Looks like we have the same bracket.
Mike