Brake light switch

Doesn't matter which side the hot wire is on. The switch is just an open or closed switch. "Lights come on when crossed" is hard for me to figure, unless there is some sort of one sided short inside the switch.

It's just a hot wire to one side. Brake pressure closes the switch then power comes out the other side regardless of what side the hot is attached to.

Yup you guys were right. It was a bad brake switch. Went to oReilly and bought the better quality brake switch they had. A born warner.

Bought and installed the switch super fast and didn't even have to bleed the brakes.

To bad as usual the parts people aren't very good or helpful. They brought up the part by vehicle which ended up being one with female terminals but my jeep is wired for male terminals. So I said I want that, but I want it to have male terminals. Well that's were it started, she stared at the computer for like 5 minutes literally didn't do anything or type anything. Just a vacant look on her face.

On comes Google is your friend. I pulled the cell and searched it popped right up. So I told her to get me part s194 and she got it quickly. But yet again I find I do more of their job than they do. My fault for having an almost 70 year old jeep. It's funny though its all good

Yup Borg Warner, darn auto correct

Catalogs are expensive to compile and print with each update, so when computers became available there was a rush by manufacturers to jump on the computer bandwagon. The database software that was used for earlier computer catalogs was limited in what it could do because of limited computing power. As a result, many manufacturers dropped listings for older models even though they still built parts for the older models. The parts stores were supposed to retain the old printed catalogs for future reference, but many didn't. The new help in parts stores never learned how to use a catalog, so the "art" of actually looking something up was lost in just a few years.

Now, if the computer software doesn't list the application, the help is clueless as to what will work in an application.

I was a partner in a NAPA store from 1973 to 1995 and I saw computers as a timesaver, but I never actually abandoned my old catalogs either. I taught my newer employees how to look parts up using the computer as well as the old catalogs. While the computer does a reasonable job of getting recent applications right, they are rather spotty on older listings.