[silveragemarvel]

I know this thread is nearly a year old but I wanted to add my 2 cents. I spent half a day trying to diagnose the brake light problem on my 89 v6 camry yesterday. I did almost everything in the service manual. Did the obvious first (bulbs, wiring, ground, etc). I pulled the stop light switch from under the dash (I removed the driver's seat first to make life a little easier) and checked the continuity between all the contacts. Everything was good. The fuse is good and getting current. Only thing I didn't do based on the manual, is check the connector going into the cruise control computer. I figure that if problem is computer I wasn't going to replace it and instead sell the car or rig a bypass. Remember, the cruise control is involved in the stop light circuit (cruise control drops control when you tap on the brake). I checked the the wire going to the stop light bulb(green with white stripe) to see if it was not grounded - this is the wire that supplies hot current to the stop light filament) - lo an behold it was grounded. So there is a short somewhere. This is what is great about this forum - no where in the Toyota service manual does it mention the little yellow box. I've seen that box before but was never able to remove it so I've always ignored it. Now that I found this forum and read that it solved many of the same problem I am almost certain that is where my problem is. Another 1/2 day will be spent targeting the yellow box!!! Thank you.