buba6

Ok, so I have disasembled my stearing column for painting and after asembly my horn is constantly on. What the f**** is going on ?! It was perfect and now it constantly is beeping. How does it work and what mistake did I made during assembly?! Any ideas guys ?!

By the way, this is my Vetta:



and this is when I bought it:

mrvette

Because you are horney?? sorry, could not resist.....

OK, on the fender well at the horn relay is a hard to spot green? wire on a plug coming into the relay from the bottom, that horn relay is a junction block for the wiring, which is obvious....so to pull down and unplug that wire, it eventually goes to the horn button on the steering column, and if you had that apart, it's easy to get that back wrong, and so ground that wire, and the relay closes and sounds the horn....

PM me if you have problems, as I may not see this thread again....

GENE

buba6

But I did not do anything with the wiring, so I think that I did not mixed the cables.

It is so dificult to build musce cars in europe, especially in Poland

bobs77vet

its all the components under the horn ring, one of them is grounding out. i am betting you assembled the spring contact mechanism with out a bushing somewhere.

look at Ecklers part number 38135 and 30869

buba6

any photos how should it look like or maybe assembly diagram, etc

SLVRSHRK

Don't feel bad. I had to re-assemble mine like 5 times to get it working. It's definitely in the horn area right by the steering wheel.

buba6

My horn is on when I try to put the stearing wheel and the spring touches the insides of the column. Looks like the spring is doing something wrong

bobs77vet

tip 6 will give you the idea, remember the horn activates when a ground path is established so when ever te inner ring touches the lower ring it grounds itself activates the horn relay



http://corvettec3.ca/tips.htm

buba6

this is hom my column looks like

bobs77vet

so whats happening is that the those two big metal discs are touching each other and making the horn relay activate and the horn honks. there needs to be space in between those discs

buba6

which discs? those on my photo ?!

bobs77vet

read this and down load Mr Sheas info. all the information you need is there

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...ting-tips.html

7T1vette

The horn relay could be malfunctioning (contacts stuck together, inside) or something in the steering column is causing a ground connection to the horn signal line. (Normally, depressing the horn button will connect a contact that grounds that line.

vettefred

Good advice...


Fred

buba6

ok so after reading all the articles, it looks like I am missing the no.1 from this diagram, cold "C" ring retainer. It should align the spring from stearing wheel so it touches only the proper posts, not everything around.
Does any body have any pictures how this part should look like or is it available in any web shop?

bobs77vet

is this it?

http://www.ecklerscorvette.com/corve...1970-1989.html

also look at Ecklers part number 38135 and 30869

look at this guys post

http://corvettec3.ca/tips.htm[/QUOTE]