Thanks to all for your replies. I'm nearly certain that there is no ground
strap from the steering rack to ground. I'll bet that's the problem. I know
that there's one in the little steering knuckle, and the horns are grounded to
the rack, but the rack isn't grounded. My only question would be then why
would the horns blast when I bypass the relay? They're grounded to the
steering rack and if the rack isn't earthed, then...?
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Braun
To: Jeff McNeal ; spitfires@autox.team.net
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:32 AM
Subject: Re: Two things...
Here is another symptom: If the horn works when the key is NOT in
the ignition, but it has problems when you are actually driving, the
cause is almost certainly that little grounding strap on the
flex joint. When you have the key out of the ignition,
the bolt of the steering lock will ground the steering
shaft and allow the horn to work.
I had this problem a few years ago, and it was driving me nuts
trying to figure out why!
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 09:33 PM 3/16/2003 -0500, ptegler@cablespeed wrote:
>Jeff,
>#1
>make sure your steering column is actually grounded.
>You should have a little jumper wire across the steering
>knuckle to ground the column to the steering rack and
>another from rack to chassis/harness.
>(remember you column is isolated in the bushes inside
>the column)
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