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| | | | Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 | 53 3100, Cleaned and painted horn. All new wiring harness and new horn button. Horn worked fine. Driving around a little and it would blow on it's own sometimes. I would hit the horn button and it would quite. After a couple trips aroung the neighbor hood it started to blow and would not quite. I disconnected the wire coming out of the mast and it still blew. I had to disconnect at the horn to make it stop. Could it be the horn itself. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 161 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 161 | Normally the horn is always live and the horn button completes the circuit to ground so I would guess that you are shorting the circuit to ground somewhere on the wire going from the horn to the mast.---Jack | | | | | Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 | I might be on to something. I pulled the horn today and layed it on the work bench and then ran some wires from the truck to it. HIt he horn button and it works fine. Reached up under the dash and moved the wires around to see it it would honk, then went under the hood and moved the wireing around and nothing. Jacked it up and turned the wheels back and forth, nothing. Could not make it honk other than using the horn button. Then i took my finger and tapped on the horn relay and it honked a couple of times then it honked and stayed on. Had to pull the wire to get it to stop. Am i safe to say it is a bad relay. | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,438 | That is what I'd suspect. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,747 | Yep. Contacts are welding together.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 | I'll check it against the old one. Shame, it was new, only had about 10 honks on it.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 264 | reinstalled the old horn relay and it seems to work just fine.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | so now you can toot your own horn.......sorry, could not
resist that..........glad you took care of the problem and
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