why doesn't my horn work?

[dhughins]

can anyone show me what it is supposed to look like in here?
this is what it looked like behind my horn button.
shouldn't there be a wire somewhere?

[ICEMAN6166]

theres a spring loaded button with a wire in it that goes in the hole in the steering wheel
the hole its at 10:00 in your pic

[64 f100]

There is another spring loaded contact below the steering wheel just like the one on top. In a pinch you can sometimes make a ballpoint pen spring and a twenty two shell work if you have to. These are available but pretty pricey at about five to ten bucks a pop. I would make sure everything else is functioning before I pop for the little buggers. The thing is made with a copper bullet shaped head with a wire attached to it and it is held together by a little brass cap at the bottom. Why this would be worth the price of a sixpack I don't know, it is what it is.

Rich

[Uncle Skip]

And the way it works is that the horn relay is grounded at the horn button on the steering wheel and puts power to the horn so it will blow.
There is no voltage at the wire on the steering wheel, which by the way is the black one coming out of the bottom of your steering wheel.
You can put a push button switch in the dash, attach that black wire to one leg of the switch and run a ground wire to the other terminal and the horn should work.
U@ss

[dhughins]

thanks ya'll i'll see what i can do.

[ICEMAN6166]

Skip
i never saw any black wires in the column wiring on any of my slicks

the horn wire is light blue with a gold or yellow stripe as seen in this pic
its a 61/62 horn switch but the wire color is the same on the rest.

[blackagatha]

the contact in the column was busted on mine, I rigged up a bent paperclip with some Epoxy stuck in the bore where the bullet contact was supposed to go.

seems hokey, but with some dielectric grease on it, it has lasted like 7 years now.

[effienut2]

I installed a ww washer switch that also activates the ww pump by pulling on the knob. Then I used the black push button ( which had been used to activate the ww pump) to activate the horn.

[cdherman]

Bear in mind -- the horn will also not work if the steering shaft is not grounded.

The 61-64 shaft did not have a rag joint (AFAIK) and the 65-66 had a copper grounding conductor across the rag joint.

Later on, FoMoCo got sly and substituted one of the plastic tapered bushings in the steering column with a metal one. This grounded the shaft enough to allow them to use a cheaper rag joint that did not have the copper grounding bar.

Just in case that's your issue.

[66ford]

wow im having the exact problem!!!