Check your brake fluid, if the brkae fluid reservoir is empty fill it up with dot 3 fluid and open all bleeder so the air on the line will bleed out, don't let the reservoir empty, fill it up as it goes. Only open the bleeder if your brake reservoir was really empty. Or your brake pads are all been worn out.
Day Light Running Lights.
If there is no brake lights on a 1998 Mazda pickup, check the fuse. If the fuse has blown, the lights will not work.
How many1996 Doge Ram pickup trucks has burned do to a short of the head lights?
The lights need to be taken out with a screwdriver Phillips usualy
Yes.
The alternator is on its way out.
Remove the dash and remove the instrument cluster, the lights are in the back of the cluster.
The brake lights in your 1983 Nissan pickup truck are controlled by the brake light relay switch. When the brake light relay switch malfunctions the brake lights will stop working.
Because you have bad lights.
Yes.
Replace Alternator
Check the radio/Acc fuse...