wow thanks for all the quick responses, that's pretty much what I was thinking of, but I was pretty tired when I thought of it and I now realize that both options would require alot of wire movement as the wheel turns that would stress the connections.
I would love to make it "original" but the housing for the blinker mech is not original to the rest of the column. I bought the kit from LMC for the blinker and none of it fit at all. If I could figure a way to make it function like it did originally that would be preferable.
I'm still reading as much about the original horn setup as I can to try to come up with a way to do it that's closer to how Chevy/GMC would have done it.
but as you can see in pic 3 the horn spring bushing in the wheel doesn't line up with horn button in the blinker mech, and I"m still trying to figure out how I would get the horn to honk using the original button, (or a button in the blinker housing as opposed to in the wheel) I had thought of fabricating a plate that would lay around the turn signal canceling cam and use the hole for the spring bushing to have a solid arm that would depress the plate when pushed and in turn hit the button. only hang up on that is getting the plate to travel up and down evenly. so far I'm still brainstorming but option 1 is still on the table as a fall back, I'm pretty sure I can have some extra wire rolled up in the blinker housing to allow for the necessary travel as the wheel is turned but it will produce quite a bit of wear on those wires over time.
the closer to original the better, I guess I read more about how they set that up over the years.
