Emergency brake light is staying lit on the dashboard. I have to apply more pressure on the pedal to brake
Check the brake fluid level first, you might have a slow leak
SOURCE: Dashboard lights have gone out
Check the fuse for it.
Under the dash.
Look in your owners manual
SOURCE: Subaru Legacy, hand brake light
Read somewhere else about light coming on when brakefluid in the resevoir is low. I added fluid to mine and bingo light went off.
SOURCE: 1993 Subaru Legacy Wagon: Bumpy Brakes
Your '93 Legacy was one of the first cars to provide ABS as standard. If your ABS is activating, you'll feel a fast pulsing feel when braking, is that what you experience?
If it's more of a brake pedal movement that changes frequency with the cars change of speed, and when moving slowly it feels slower and more pronounced, you likely have a warped rotor.
An ABS issue should be checked out by a Subaru mechanic. If it's the rotor, then the offending rotor will have to be machined or replaced. If you can identify the rotor that's warped (with the car on stands, rig up a steel ruler so that it touches the rotor, and spin the wheel by hand. If it touches intermittently, then the rotor is warped) you may be able to remove it yourself (buy a workshop manual for instructions) and bring it to a brake shop and have it machined. This is far cheaper than they doing the whole job.
However, if you're not comfortable with these suggestions, then have a brake shop do it for you. This is an important safety device (obviously) and worth the money to have it done correctly. Early Legacy's are pretty much bullet-proof and last forever, so the investment will be worthwhile.
Hope this helps.
SOURCE: 1995 Subaru Legacy L - my running lights and brake
switch just behind steering wheel
Testimonial: "Thanks! I feel a little stupid! I have never noticed that switch before. Thank goodness that was the problem, though. "
Whenever
this warning light or any other stays on in the dash it is indicating
that the systems control module (or the system sensor in the case of
lights like low oil pressure, door open indicators etc.) has detected
a fault, it then disables the system (this applies to ABS,TCS, TCM,
SRS and BCM faults and others) as long as the light is on. You must
now have the dealer hook up a special electronic diagnostic tool and
"scan" the system for the fault code that is stored for the
problem(s)
Legend of Abbreviations. ABS Antilock brake system.TCS Traction control system, TCM Transmission control module, SRS Supplemental restraint system, BCM Body control module
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