EJP
Daily Driver
When I bought this '79 X the horn didn't work. Took off the horn button to find no contact springs. Bought 2 from Midwest. Put them in tonite, reattached the horn button, pushed on it twice, heard a couple of what sounded to be relay clicks and blew the fuse. Pulled down the fuse panel from below the glovebox. Took off the horn button and removed the springs.Put in another 16 AMP fuse, attached jumper wire from spring location to horn contact ring and blew that fuse. Put in another fuse, attached the jumper and now get a low pitched squealing sound from the fuse panel under the glovebox. Fuse did not blow. Could it be the relay making this sound? Thinking I may have fried it, I swapped the horn relay with the rear window defrost relay. Look the same. Same Bosch part number on them. Made no difference. No horn. Just this electrical squeal.
While waiting for the springs to arrive, thought I would do some maint and clean up the rusty grounds in the headlight buckets. The horn did work via jumper wire before I took the grounds apart for cleaning. Is one of these ground wires horn related or does the horn ground itself to the car body? Did these cars only come with one horn on the left side? I have none in the right headlight bucket and maybe some cut wires since no horn there??? I am at a bit of a disadvantage looking at the wires in the headlight buckets as when the previous owner had the car painted, they painted all of wiring as well. The paint does not clean off even with lacquer thinner.
I do have the interior gutted (center console switches all removed, seats belt buckles, etc). Looking to replace carpet. Is this squealing sound I am hearing a seat belt warning thing since the seat belts wires are just lying on the floor.
Also, turn signals do not work front or rear. Are any of the grounds related to these lights. They do light up when the headlights are on. Maybe just a bad turn signal relay? Don't know if they ever worked.
I would really appreciate some advice and thoughts on this horn mystery. What looked like a simple fix has now turned into a larger PITA job. If I did something stupid to cause this, just say it. Dont want to do this again. Sorry for the length of this but wanted all to know what I did.Thanks!
Ed
While waiting for the springs to arrive, thought I would do some maint and clean up the rusty grounds in the headlight buckets. The horn did work via jumper wire before I took the grounds apart for cleaning. Is one of these ground wires horn related or does the horn ground itself to the car body? Did these cars only come with one horn on the left side? I have none in the right headlight bucket and maybe some cut wires since no horn there??? I am at a bit of a disadvantage looking at the wires in the headlight buckets as when the previous owner had the car painted, they painted all of wiring as well. The paint does not clean off even with lacquer thinner.
I do have the interior gutted (center console switches all removed, seats belt buckles, etc). Looking to replace carpet. Is this squealing sound I am hearing a seat belt warning thing since the seat belts wires are just lying on the floor.
Also, turn signals do not work front or rear. Are any of the grounds related to these lights. They do light up when the headlights are on. Maybe just a bad turn signal relay? Don't know if they ever worked.
I would really appreciate some advice and thoughts on this horn mystery. What looked like a simple fix has now turned into a larger PITA job. If I did something stupid to cause this, just say it. Dont want to do this again. Sorry for the length of this but wanted all to know what I did.Thanks!
Ed