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On 4 Nov 97, Richard Mason wrote:
> This is one for Jim. I've missed his advice over the past six
> months. I spent a few hours playing with my horn the other day in a
> vain attempt to make it work again. I narrowed the problem down to
> the ground wire connnection at the steering box end. It doesn't
> ground i.e the steering mechanism isn't grounded to the car somehow.
> If I run a wire to grounnd from the end of the ground wire it works
> fine and I can clip an alligator clip around the plugged together
> conection and ground it as well. I've sanded the connection and the
> only thing I can figure is that the thing that the plug is screwed
> to is no longer grounded due to corrosion or whatever.
The horn ground circuits varied over the years, but I recall that one
of the wires broke on my 68, which would be exactly the same as your
69. I think your problem sounds like just a loss of contact due to
corrosion in one ot the joints. You just need to find the joint that
doesn't have good contact and probably loosen and retighten it.
Use your clip lead to ground and find the point farthest down the
column (closest to "ground") where connecting that clip lead makes
the horn work. The next connection down will be the culprit.
Note that there is a ground wire from the steering gearbox to the
front axle mounts which bypasses the rubber mounts for the front axle
beam.
Jim
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Melissa Kepner Jim Adney
Laura Kepner-Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin
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