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Re[2]: help my horn is posessed!

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Subject: Re[2]: help my horn is posessed!
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:05:58 -0700
References: <12.10bc612.26cb76bc@cs.com>
Hello NewNGsInfo,

              hey... speaking of horns.. .anybody have an extra?...
              mine is shot.. drilled out the rivets to repair it, but
              still nothing... been without one for 3 years now...
              hate to buy NEW!!!!

Tuesday, August 15, 2000, 9:46:52 PM, you wrote:

Ncc> Bryan,

Ncc> My experience says it was the middle finger!

Ncc> The stock setup for a bugeye is a brass ring that is connected to the 
horn.  
Ncc> On that rides a spring loaded contact that is connected to ground thru the 
Ncc> horn button.  If all is well possitioned, only ground gets to the horn 
lead 
Ncc> via a tap on the button.  Fact is, the energetic "torque" of hard turns 
will 
Ncc> bend the whole mounting and short out the brass ring from the inside metal 
of 
Ncc> the wheel that is grounded thru the shaft.  Solution is to be sure the 
brass 
Ncc> ring (mounted on the bakelite shroud attached to the dash) is centered and 
Ncc> flat relative to the arch of the wheel.  Also be sure there is no play in 
the 
Ncc> shaft.

Ncc> John Carey
61 Bugeye at:>>
Ncc> http://ourworld.cs.com/JCareyPage/JCareyPage.htm



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Best regards,
 Bill   
                       mailto:pythias@pacifier.com

'66 Sprite HAN8L49403



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