Did the horn EVER Work?

S

SSNET

Daily Driver
Hi
Installing air horns, car came with no horns.
I am trying to figure out the horn switch. It looks like you push on it, and it makes connection between the two springs, and, BEEP.

But, on the backside of the wheel, the two contacts (BLK wire, and Purple/blk wire) are already shorted together by the brass ring on
the wheel.
As per the print, these two wires are supposed to be connected when you push the button, not all the time, as they are now.

Am I missing something??

Jim:blackeye:
 
???

Can you take a picture? It sounds like it may have been "modified" in some way. What year is the car?
 
Jim... Stock operation is the horn button...

... making contact with a single wire and applying GROUND potential for the HORN RELAY.

Usually there is a brass ring and spring wipers that do the contacting...

The horn relay has POWER attached to one side of its coil and the horn button supplies the ground potential so it operates. When the relay operates... it them supplies POWER to the regular horns which have a GROUND potential already connected, via a second wire or the horn housing.

You simply want to replace the old horns with the air-horn compressor... ensuring it is well grounded.

BUT... the old system need to work FIRST in order to do this.

As Eddie said... a picture would help as is SOUNDS like you have an aftermarket wheel and button.

In any case... you need to VERIFY that you have voltage FROM the horn relay and/or the horn relay is operating when you ground the lead at the horn button.

HTH...
 
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