[6pack] Self-beeping Horns!

[lfm614 at aol.com]

Do you have any play in the steering wheel, sometimes when the bushings wear the shaft can ground on housing causing horn to honk when turning. 

Lou
72 Pimento
------Original Message------
From: David Friedlander
Sender: 6pack-bounces at autox.team.net
To: TR-6 list
ReplyTo: forzion at maine.rr.com
Subject: [6pack] Self-beeping Horns!
Sent: Aug 20, 2010 1:54 PM

  Hey all;

I have been trying to track-down an apparent short in my car's horns. So 
far, I've
disassembled the steering column, checked out the horn ring and 
purple/black
wire from the ring to the harness and find that it's not broken, 
pinched, or chafed.
I have disconnected the purple/black wire from the W1 on the relay 
because when
I touch it to the terminal the horn beeps!! From the horn relay, I have 
followed the
purple/yellow wires' path to the horns, but see no connections there 
amiss.....

Do these horns ever get internal shorts somehow? All grounds appear to 
be in order.

Any insights/suggestions would be *greatly* appreciated....!!

Dave Friedlander
'74 Six w/A-OD and TBI
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