1989 S13 electrical prob, E-brake, and smell

[Blood Riot]

I have a 1989 S13 Coupe.

E-brakes:Just today I was going to pick up my sister from school and I noticed when I got out of the driveway that the rear was shaking bad when I went in reverse. I got home and now the ebrake instead of going lets say the regular 12 clicks and go stiff, it goes 5 clicks and goes stiff.

Electrical:Its been a while since I've had the following problem, but I need to fix it ASAP. Whenever I step on the brakes all of the lights come on as if I had the parking lights on. by Everyting coming on I mean Parking lights, side markers, corner markers, instrument cluster, a/c control, and even the glove box if its open. Another thing is that whenever I have the parking lights or even the headlights on, my brakes are light up as if I was stepping on the brakes all the time, when I do step on them you can barely notice the change in illumination. Reverse light doesn't come on when I go into reverse. I did the Reverse EL indiglo gauges upgrade to the instrument cluster, tomorrow I'm going to revert that and see if that will fix that problem.

Smell:Ever since I bought the car (and it seems like its only in the winter for some reason) I get a burning smell coming from the center console, as if a wire was burning or something.

Thanks for the help in advance.

[slydways]

Not sure about the electrical and e-brake issues, but I had a similar problem with a wierd smell from the console. Mine was a pinhole leak in a transmission line, and it was leaking right onto the exhaust

[Blood Riot]

Thanks for replying, I'll check the transmission sometime soon for that leak you are talking about, can you tell me any specific location? Thanks.

[91240sx rb20det]

check where your shifter bolts in to the transmission. if fluid leaks out onto the transmission its burns and smells really bad......

[Blood Riot]

Thanks for the confirmation 91240sx rb20det Bump for my thread, I really need help on the electrical and this e-brake problem.

[mateoo]

same thing happend to my car with the e brake..its because i lowered my car..and on the left side where the splash guard is..there is a accesory harness..and i lowered the car so much that the tire scrapped the guard and onto the harness when i made tight right turns..anyways..check out that harness is messed up.that harness also affected my windshield wipers..

[Blood Riot]

UPDATE:

Shortage:Okay fellas, I figured out the short. Whenever you have a short, besides panicking, please check and make sure you have the right bulbs in the right places. I was using (I guess too little of a bulb) on my left tail light on the brakes, so thats why my whole interior lit up when I pressed the brakes, that light bulb was the wrong size and was creating a short in the whole lighting system.

E-Brake: as MateoO and slydways said, I think I'm pinching the E-brake line with my rear seats, I did remove them and install them again, and around that time its when it started. So I'm sure that its the seats that are pinching the line.

Smell: Still need to check it.