horn wiring issue?

[wcmccleery]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

[Go Fleiter]

Dear wcmccleery,

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scan a print with 100 dpi or even at black and white, so at least we get an impression of Your car.

Greetings! Go

[wcmccleery]

I still can't fiqure out what I am missing on my ring activated horn. The wire to the relay that completes the groundis connected to a brass "T' shaped piece that rests on the spring, that fits into the big washer under the nut that holds the steering wheel on. The ring fits on top of the spring. The button is held on by three screws form the back of the wheel. There is no insulator between any of these parts, so it grounds all the time making the horn blow all the time.

By the way is there, how do you upload a picture to this site, and where are the pictures at, if you can upload them?

[squirrel]

you guys are great, thanks for the help.  the car is tooting properly now!

[John Hendricks]

A straightened out coat hanger makes a good wire chaser.  Save the fitting on the horn button end of the wire-u might want to splice the new wire to the end of the old

[Jim Yergin]

As I understand it, the wire runs up through the hollow center of the steering shaft and attaches to the horn button. When the button is pressed it grounds the wire completing the circuiit to the horn. On my '41 I fed a stiff piece of wire up the shaft and fastened the ground wire to the end of it and then pulled it up through to the top. No need to open the steering box. Sounds like your exisiting wire is stuck in the shaft. I would think you should pull it out to clear the way for a replacement wire.
Jim Yergin

[squirrel]

hi all-
   i am having issues fixing the wiring for this great 53 cranbrook i picked up a few months back.  well, the car is great except for a couple of wiring issues, one of which is the horn wiring is pretty much a mess.  i've got my shop manual, which absolutely is useless as to how the horn button is wired from the relay; in my car i see a loose wire coming from the base of the steering column, which would make sense to me to be the button wire that would go to the relay.  unfortunately for me, there's no wire poking up from the shaft on the steering wheel side, and i've tried feeling down into the tube to see if maybe it's pushed down in, to no avail.  i also tried stuffing fresh wiring into the tube from the steering wheel side, but it hits something about 2 or 3 feet down. 
am i even on the right track?  can i feed a wire up from the bottom, and discard the wire that's in there now?  do i need to remove the steering gear cover to do so?  also, what is the meaning of life?
for what it's worth, it's the button-actuated horn, not the ring-actuated. 
thanks in advance!