Re: [T3] Horn fook-up

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

On the later models, the live from the horn goes to the steering wheel boss
and contact ring which feeds down the column when you press the horn bar.
The current jumps the rubber steering coupler via a wire fitted there, to
the steering box and front beam from where it returns to the frame ground.

On a '61 Beetle the steering column outer tube is isolated and feeds the
live from the horn up the tube, across the horn contact and down the column
in the same way.  Earlier than that there was a carbon contact to bring the
horn live to the wheel.

Why on earth did they do this daft thing on the '65?  It doesn't match
their diagram either.  It does tie in with a problem on our (Dad's) new
1964 1500S;there was a lot of crackling on the radio, which the garage put
down to the charges dispersing from the tyres.  They fitted a strap from
the front beam to the frame, I seem to recall, but don't remember if they
also had to modify the horn circuit.  Well it was 35 years ago, and I
wasn't paying!

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
http://www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message----­c,$Keith Park <TopNotchResto@worldnet.att.net>
To: Dave Hall <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>; type3@vwtype3.org
<type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: 16 May 1999 05:37
Subject: Re: [T3] Horn fook-up


>Well there are no slider rings for the horn connection on the 65 steering
>wheel so how do you get the wire across the steering coupler to the horn
>without breaking/tangling it when you repeatedly turn the wheel?? you
dont!
>you only go across to the beam which is then electrically switched  by the
>horm button.


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