[TR] Horn Works on its own

Chris Simonsen ccsimonsen at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 16:50:51 MDT 2007


When at the autocross my TR4 honks at nearly every right turn.....

I love it!!!

I'm sure there is a bushing worn out somewhere....

Sure wish I was at SEVTR....

On 10/18/07, David Brister <david.brister at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> If your horn button setup is the same as my 4A I did the following years
> ago
> and it still works fine. Also very economical.
> I found a plastic ball point pen of the same diameter as the original
> contacting cylinder and cut the  barrel to the same length. I also found
> that the centre electrodes of a used dry battery, can't remember the size,
> were just right to fit inside the ball pen. Then fitting the spring from
> the
> same ball point in between two small lengths of carbon electrode made an
> externally insulated cylinder of the right size to make the contact
> between
> the brass lug on the horn button and the copper slip ring inside the
> steering wheel boss.
> Hope this makes sense!
>
> David Brister
> 1967 TR4A
>
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