htmorelli

Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #1

hi everybody!
I have a defender 2,5 td .... my quedtion is that where can i find he wire which connect the handbrake switch?it comes from the dashbord?

 

Oldseadog

Well-Known Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #2

It should be a White/Yellow from the handbrake to the lamp, which switches to earth, and it could be anywhere underneath

 

FlyingPete

Well-Known Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #3

The wire to the switch wasn't always fitted (my 90 never had it from new) but it should be in the dash harness. Look for the white/yellow wire in the multi-way plugs near the brake servo/clutch pedal. If necessary, run a new wire from there down along the gearbox and through the back of the handbrake lever. Mine didn't have a switch either, so rather than bodge something up I ended up replacing it with a take-off part from a much newer Defender.

 

htmorelli

Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #4

FlyingPete said:

The wire to the switch wasn't always fitted (my 90 never had it from new) but it should be in the dash harness. Look for the white/yellow wire in the multi-way plugs near the brake servo/clutch pedal. If necessary, run a new wire from there down along the gearbox and through the back of the handbrake lever. Mine didn't have a switch either, so rather than bodge something up I ended up replacing it with a take-off part from a much newer Defender.

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I think my def is the same....but i would like to have the option if it is not very dificult to install,i have no switch atached near the handbake....i place an order for it,because that i have to find the wire if it exist

Thanks for answeres!!

 

FlyingPete

Well-Known Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #5

If you have no switch at the lever, it's likely that the wire isn't there either. Easy enought though to run a new one alongside the other wires in that area.
I did this and also wired a 'bonnet open' warning light, using a spare door switch and wired to the spare warning light (with a tilted truck cab) on the instrument cluster.

 

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Hicap phill

Well-Known Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #6

@FlyingPete
If you have a tilted truck on the cluster this is a rare cluster.

Is yours ex military ?

 

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Evan farmer

Active Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #7

My 1985 county 90 doesnt have it fitted but it still glows when ignition is on and engine off

 

htmorelli

Member

• Aug 28, 2018

• #8

Hicap phill said:

@FlyingPete
If you have a tilted truck on the cluster this is a rare cluster.

Is yours ex military ?

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Not ex militay....is a 89 station wagon...i haven’t wire i think because i haven’t bulb in the dash

 

FlyingPete

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• Aug 30, 2018

• #9

Hicap phill said:

@FlyingPete
If you have a tilted truck on the cluster this is a rare cluster.

Is yours ex military ?

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Just a regular 1988 CSW. I think the symbol was a leftover from the Llama project or something like it.

 

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Hicap phill

Well-Known Member

• Aug 30, 2018

• #10

It is a llama dash. Finding them is hard...people used to pay good money for them