welcome to the garage wardkew - not sure what you're calling "the ring", but if you put your ohmmeter from that wire sticking out to a good ground it should show a dead short when you push the horn button, which supplies the ground for the horn[s] .... you don't "disassemble the column" to get the wire out, you pull the mast bearing at the top and as you remove it, the wire should follow along because it's factory attached to it - in fact if you can't pull the wire out the bottom, it's unlikely you have a broken wire - and if you do pull the wire [either way], make sure you tie a piece of string to it so you have something to pull a new wire back thru
Bill
