On the Mountney horn button the contact with the "pencil" is made with
essentially and unbundled wound wire, flayed out so that at least one hits the
pencil. These were very weal and broke right off, so I had to solder some
thicker wires back on.
Having said that, the horn wasn't the problem, just another of 3 or 4 red
herrings that made me think I had found the problem becuase for a while the car
ran fine. In the end--and thank god there is an end--it was the connector
at the rear of the alternator. Early on in the process I attacked that,
thinking it was corroded. Then I moved on. It turned out the clips where
just
too loose and occasionally lost a little bit of the contact, but never fell
out. A simple crimping with plyers solved a problem that bedeviled me for 6
weeks or more. The plus side is that I have trouble-shot my electrical system
and anything that was slightly questionable was put right, so I anticipate
years of trouble-free motoring (RIGHT!).
Jay Donoghue
72 MGB-GT
66Mustang
In a message dated 12/5/2004 5:14:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Saabnutty@aol.com writes:
I'm confused about the time line for the missing "filaments" in the horn
button. Did those break off and disappear inside the steering column
somewhere or
were they never present? Perhaps something else broke off and is
short-circuiting something somewhere? Just a thought. My only other
thought is that
when you fixed the latest horn problem you somehow fixed something else
wrong in
the steering column by accident.
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