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Old May 3, 2021 | 07:11 PM
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Horn wires

My horn has never worked in my 67 Cutlass. I’m finishing my dash restoration and new wiring harness etc and it dawned on my when I had the column a part I never addressed this. What an idiot I am. Anyway the white wires coming from each side of the steering wheel were snipped but I don’t have any wires coming up through the column that are white. There is a mess of wires behind the turn signal cam but they look wrapped up and appear to have never been touched.




I’ll slit my wrist before I take this column back out and a part again. It’s North Idaho the car isn’t back together and it’s drivin season.
Old May 4, 2021 | 05:23 AM
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There aren't any wires that come up through the column. The turn signal cancel cam has a tube that sticks up through that hole at about 10 o'clock in your steering wheel hub. Those two white wires are supposed to have a brass contact eyelet, spring, and plastic retainer that holds them down in that tube. The underside of the cancel cam has the slip ring that completes the circuit to the horn relay.

The cancel cam post looks like this




The ends of the wires are supposed to look like this.




You might be able to use one of these horn wire kits to splice to the ends of your two white wires. I suspect you would need to trim the length of that black plastic retainer to fit under the center cap.


Old May 4, 2021 | 09:50 PM
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So would that spade go through to the contact on the cam or the flat portion? What is that horn contact with the spring you took the picture of off of?



Old May 5, 2021 | 02:42 AM
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So would that spade go through to the contact on the cam or the flat portion? What is that horn contact with the spring you took the picture of off of?
No. The round eyelet and spring go in the hole. The plastic retainer holds it there. You cut off the spade terminal and splice that wire to the other two that you have. That's what's missing on yours. Look again at the wires in the second photo I posted that come from the horn buttons.


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