daveSanborn
Active Member
I have no experience with the first generation cars and their horn relay.
With everything hooked up (minus the steering wheel), when I ground the contact switch on the steering column the horn relay "clicks" but I'm not getting any power out of either of the two wires leading to the horns. Does this indicate that the relay itself is bad?
Oddly, when I shoot power straight from the + battery terminal to either of the horns, neither of the horns honk, weird....
Maybe the horns themselves need a better ground where bolted to the radiator support?
I've only started the troubleshooting on this "last area" of the car's repairs, but I'd like to think that if the relay was working properly, my test light would illuminate when connected to one of the horn power wires while I was grounding the horn contact switch back on the column.
1964.5 car BTW with the generator removed. The Yellow wire that would normally route from the regulator to the relay is now a constant hot coming from the starter solenoid.
Any ideas?
With everything hooked up (minus the steering wheel), when I ground the contact switch on the steering column the horn relay "clicks" but I'm not getting any power out of either of the two wires leading to the horns. Does this indicate that the relay itself is bad?
Oddly, when I shoot power straight from the + battery terminal to either of the horns, neither of the horns honk, weird....
Maybe the horns themselves need a better ground where bolted to the radiator support?
I've only started the troubleshooting on this "last area" of the car's repairs, but I'd like to think that if the relay was working properly, my test light would illuminate when connected to one of the horn power wires while I was grounding the horn contact switch back on the column.
1964.5 car BTW with the generator removed. The Yellow wire that would normally route from the regulator to the relay is now a constant hot coming from the starter solenoid.
Any ideas?