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My budddy Mike! There are 4 screws that mount what I belive is the turn signal switch assy to the column... youll see them with the wheel off, they loosen often and may make your car really Horney :) Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Wodkowski" <wodkowski@mac.com> To: <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 7:37 PM Subject: [T3] Horn > Hey folks! > Long time no read, been so busy I haven't been able to pay any attention to > the car. But now, I'm back, sort of. > > Prob: horn goes off on turns, while braking > > this is a 72 squareback, BUT I have an oldstyle horn-ring steering wheel and > my horn wiring does NOT follow the book. > > Diagnosis: sufficient force applied to the steering wheel when at turning > positions causes the horn to honk. Namely when the force is applied to the > top or bottom of the wheel. > > What I don't understand is exactly what's happening. But it is definitely > the steering WHEEL, not the column, that is doing it. It seems the brass on > the bottom of the steering wheel is making contact with the copper strips on > the column where the signal housing etc is. Yet it seems it is ALWAYS this > way, anyhow. I guess I just don't understand where the electrons are going > or not going in order for this problem to occur. > > > Also of note. The steering wheel has play in it, no matter how I tighten it > down. The splined post moves about 1/32" -1/16" vertically. This movement is > NOT what is making the horn go, however. > > I haven't been able to get this horn to work consistently well since 1996, > when I bought this thing. > > I've missed you guys *sniff*. > > - > -- > Mike Wodkowski > 72 FI SQBK > Brooklyn > wodkowski@mac.com > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/