Need some help with the horn...

[Project86]

I jacked with it awhile, but something isn't quite working out right. So my questions are: With the parts pictured below are there enough there to make the horn work? If not what's missing? Or should I just buy some new components? Where in the www is a exploded view of this assembly?

I'm trying not to pull out my hair, because I got this really BA mullet thing going on right now and it's cool. I read and searched some the threads here, but it still isn't making to much sense. I'm willing to be schooled and ridiculed if it gets the damn thing fixed. Let the cruxificition begin.

Here are the pictures on two posts.

 

[Project86]

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[tarry99]

I jacked with it awhile, but something isn't quite working out right. So my questions are: With the parts pictured below are there enough there to make the horn work? If not what's missing? Or should I just buy some new components? Where in the www is a exploded view of this assembly?

I'm trying not to pull out my hair, because I got this really BA mullet thing going on right now and it's cool. I read and searched some the threads here, but it still isn't making to much sense. I'm willing to be schooled and ridiculed if it gets the damn thing fixed. Let the cruxificition begin.

Here are the pictures on two posts.

First off that rust has to go.............second that plunger / white plastic piece should have a wire attached that runs from that point down into the column that is hooked to your horn. Normally that wire has a button on the end makes contact with a round brass disc that is under that dome shaped adapter .........when you push the horn button it grounds itself to the column and makes a complete circuit and the Horn Blows.

 

[BusaDave9]

No there are not any good diagrams of the horn switch that I know of.
It really helps to know how it works so let me explain.
The horn relay has voltage and if it gets grounded out it energizes and the horn honks. This contact in the below pic presses on the bottom of a plate that rotates with the steering wheel.

This energizes the center of the horn button in this next picture. Notice how screws go through plastic pieces to prevent grounding out which will cause the horn to always honk.

When you press on the horn button the center piece in the above picture presses against this plate from your picture.

That plate grounds out and causes the horn to honk.
All the plastic pieces inside the horn switch prevent the metal pieces from grounding out and causing the horn to honk.

Like I said, I don't know of any good diagrams showing how this goes together. Maybe another member can come up with one.

 

[IOPort51]

One other piece of good information, the horn relay is up under the dash and there is a very good possibility that it is FUBAR . So as you are working on the switch and destroying a perfectly good mullet try to remember this well hidden piece of the puzzle.

 

[BusaDave9]

One other piece of good information, the horn relay is up under the dash and there is a very good possibility that it is FUBAR . So as you are working on the switch and destroying a perfectly good mullet try to remember this well hidden piece of the puzzle.

Good point!
As a test short to ground the spring loaded contact (slightly higher than the steering column in this picture)

If the horn honks your relay is good and you need to continue working to get the horn button fixed.

 

[Turbogus]

Read a thread or a magazine article that was a dirty trick with CJ horns, run a jumper wire from the adjacent left turn signal wire when nobody's lookin'.......