85fortheDrive

Fuse and relay are okay. Must be in the contacts within the steering wheel.

Anyone had this issue?

Thanks as always.

Tim

hacker-pschorr

Just use your finger

85fortheDrive

Gee Erik, that's a fine idea. But in order to get a horn sound, I'm gonna need you to ride shotgun and pull my finger on cue.

Champagne

Tim:

did it stop working all of a sudden? Was it working before?

Things to check:
- remove the hornpad. Check to make sure that the ground is still attached to it.
- if so, remove the ground lead and bridge it to each of the 3 contact points. There are in the middle of the ribbed black plactic retainers on the steering wheel. Horn should sound when your ground any of these contacts.

Paul

Dennis Wilson

Tim,

There is a brass contact ring attached to the wire that connects to the horn pad. This ring often wears through with age and loses contact with the ground button. If you pull your wheel and check the bottom, you will probably find this ring has seen its last days. I have some spares if you find this is the case.

Dennis

Champagne

Stop calling Tim a nut

Paul

F451

Yep. My money is on the brass tab that you see here. You may want to carefully bend it up just a bit to insure that it is making contact. You should also give it a cleaning (carefully so as not to break it). I used a pencil eraser and some electrical spray cleaner. Same for the contact on the steering wheel itself.

Dennis Wilson

Yep. When the tab is like the picture it has normally eaten up the ring on the wheel. The sad part is the pictured tab is not replaceable. i.e. if completely gone it requires another turn signal assembly.

Dennis

Randy V

Hopefully it's just the brass contact tab as suggested.

If that doesn't fix it, it could be the steering shaft bearing(s) are toast which causes a misalignment problem that first shows up as a horn failure and/or failure of the turn signal to auto-cancel.

Jim bailey - 928 International

As Randy mentions the upper steering bearing can fail and the wheel is pulled forward by the spring at the end of the steering shaft. Then the brass L tab AND the contact ring on the back of the steering wheel destroy each other. You need to pull the steering wheel to investigate but first wiggle the wheel side to side there should be little movement.

85fortheDrive

Wheel is coming off tonight for a looksee. Hopefully it's just the contact. Pix to follow.