I have a 2004 Ford Ranger Pickup with 4 WD and the rear brake lights don't...

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...work. All of the other lights work.? I checked all the fuses that have to do with lights and I also checked the master fusebox that feeds the fuse box in the cab. All fuses are good. I used a volt-ohm meter to do the checks. I am thinking that maybe its the switch attached to the brake pedal. My cruise control went out a few months ago where if you put on your brakes the engine stays engaged. I turned the cruise control off for now. I am wondering if both switches are loose or bad. How do I check these out without taking the switches out? Is there anything else I should be looking at? The lamps in the brake lights are good.
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I used my volt-ohm meter to check the continuity of the lamp filaments. You can just look at the filament and see if there is a break in the wire filament. Sometimes just looking at a lamps filament can be mis-leading. The filament could look O.K. but there may be just enough of a break in the filament that you wouldn't see, and it would cause the lamp not to work. Same thing could happen to fuses as well.
 
simple its your brake light switch cruise going out is an indicator of this usually the switch has plugs for both brake and cruise what has happened is the contacts have went bad
hope this helps
 
I hope it is not what i am thinking. but i ran into this problem once, and it turned out to be in the turn signal switch, and since you said that you had problems with the cruise control, i would almost bet that it is turn signal switch problems because the brakes and everything run through them. good luck
 
i dont know how you checked that the brake lights were good, but keep in mind they use 2 types of bulbs to light up the back (one with the brake, one without) -i think, not sure. Replace the bulbs again, who knows.

Sounds like the brake switch if the cruise wont shut off though.
 
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