I believe you on the right track to clutch cable bliss.
 

Many moons ago I thought that pulsing brake lights would be the ticket. The harder you stop, the more they would pulse. Then in 2016, or so, I noticed on new vehicles the third brake light started pulsing when the brakes were applied; for a short time. A step in the right direction, but not far enough.

Now that every auto has LED lights I find them way to bright and when the brake lights come one I almost have to close my eyes. It does not help that 90% of the drivers in my area ride the brake pedal with the left foot. The brake lights are on all the time. How do you tell if they're really braking? Make the brake lights pulse slow for moderate, faster for normal and really fast for hard braking. 

Of course my peeves don't end there. With the advent of brow LED lights and super bright headlights it was impossible to see a front turn signal as the signal light was stuffed right beside the brow/headlight. Who's great idea was that? Now I see newer cars where the daylight brow lights go out when the turn signal comes on. A great step forward, although the turn signal light is still tucked in close to the headlamp and at night one cannot see that dim yellow flashing light. 

On another rant; we have to many fatals where I live. If people would just slow down and pay attention these fatal accidents would be less frequent. It seems the motto where I live is "Go as fast as you can, screw the other guy and check email as often as you can"

Sorry about the soap box.

 

Started to work on the Phoenix Project again and switched the rear lower coil over brackets from side to side which means the car was raised around 1" and pretty much gave me the ride height I've been looking for. Even if the springs most likely will settle a bit I can adjust for that now and still have a margin. The "problem" I have now is to try to stay away from using the coil over shocks I had in the rear in the front... the front end is as of now set up to use original style springs and shocks, but it would of course be cool to have adjustable ride height in the front also.

I would check at fuse (both sides) and at wiper motor to see if you are getting full voltage.  You may need to clean up contact surfaces. Check your switch as well.

You didn’t mention if you’re doing this with engine on or off.  Is there a difference?

Check battery voltage from positive to ground at/near firewall to make sure you have a good ground as well.
Main feed to fuse box is at start solenoid.  May want to check/ clean terminals and lugs too.

OK, thanks chaps. I purchased some clear plastic tubing. I'm not wild about swallowing ATF so I have an old antifreeze tester with a rubber bulb that fits quite snuggly into the tubing. I think I'll try that first. It will probably take a while but I have nothing but time. 

Use the Texas credit card technique. Clear tubing down the trans filler tube to the pan bottom...pucker up and carefully pull the fluid up the tube until you see it getting close to the vacuum source...pinch the tubing, remove from the filler tube and drain the fluid into a catch pan....check fluid level a la dipstick...repeat as necessary...

We’ve had work trucks where the third brake light on the cab had some....to use Prof’s word “pulser”. It would get your attention. Some would pulse the whole time the brake lights were on and others would pulse three time then go solid red. The main brake lights operated normally.

I do see some trucks and trailers running the roads around here with a yellow strobe flasher on the back end. It blinks all the time. It can be seen at a distance and its really annoying in the dark.

I think regularly they are like $130, but we got a great deal with the group buy.  I bought 3 of them for various projects.

You shouldn't have to retune the engine, just adjust the valve as noted in the instructions, which are good and detailed.  Once you have it set you might want to at least check the idle adjustments, but that should be about it. 

xrracer wrote:

3.1 million Pintos sold. I would not call that a failure.

117 lawsuites filed for the Pinto alone.  Ford was also investigated by the NHTSA, and the crux of most of this was a memo that Ford had sent to the NHTSA saying that new standards for fuel systems were not worth the financial cost when weighed against the societal cost of the injury and deaths of people.  Its probably the most callous thing ever written by an automaker.  

When you factor in the cost of the litigation and the damage to Ford's reputation, which affected sales across the board, it almost caused financial ruin for Ford.  Ironically, its probably why we still have the Mustang today. 
 

gjz30075 wrote:

I'm not sure what you can use as a baseline for 'improvement, or not' type of measurement; maybe gas mileage,
plug readings, I don't know but whatever you use, you can temporily block off the radiator to get the temp
to 195 and then use your measurements to see the difference.   Less messy than changing the thermostat, and
maybe changing back again.

 I just trusted Steve on this and swapped out the thermostat.  Ugh, it's a pain in the butt to do, but I did it.
I got coolant all over the fan belt and last time that happened, there was a weird noise which I originally thought was clutch throw out bearing. But a friend said that fanbelts don't like coolant and I replaced the belt. Problem was fixed. Hopefully it won't happen again this time.

Check the laws in your state. I am pretty sure that you need to have standard constant-on bright brake lights in order to be legal. 
When I drove and raced an 09 Miata, I started using the in-line brake light pulser from Web Electronics. They are also the people that make the sequential tail lights for late model 'Stangs.
If you did the install you suggest, then you could flash people quickly when ever you slowed down.
Think about those insane pulsing headlights that big motorcycles use to increase their visibility...and do that on the rear of your car. Miata owners do this mod all of the time. Of course they still get rear ended--just not as hard.
 

Yes you are correct. If they cant see all of those lights on a bus why should they see me