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: Billet Specialties Steering Wheel Install Help!!


mark67ss
Nov 28th, 06, 04:39 PM
My car has a billet speciaties vintec steering wheel in it. I press the horn button and nothing!! I am assuming that there is a missing wire so I take the wheel off. I see there is a ground wire hooked up but not another wire. So I dont go any further and contact the Billet speciaties website. It says that I will need a Horn wire lead that connects between the horn button and the contact in the column. My problem is there is NO INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS on the website. Does anyone have a copy they can post for me? I need to know how to hook this wire up and if I need to pull the column adaptor off first to do it. The horn button has a spade terminal on it but the other end of the lead looks like it had a golf tee type of end on it. Just want to know if this slides in after the column adaptor is put on or if I have to take the adaptor back off first. Dont want to strip anything else off if I dont have to.Has anyone installed this before and does anyone have any diagrams? installation notes? Any help would be appreciated. I have attached a link to a picture of the horn wire lead Billet specialties web site says I need. THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

http://www.billetspecialties.com/item.asp?cid=8&scid=202&pid=614

Mark
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Brian Lewis
Nov 28th, 06, 05:57 PM
Ground the wire and see if the horn blows, the horn relay should be clicking, you can check the horn relay by using a good 14 gauge ground wire from a good ground to the brown lead running to the horn relay, if horns still don't blow check the passenger fender ground and connection from horns to brackets for a good ground.
As for the steering wheel, if everything blows by grounding that wire then the wire hooks to whatever plate that needs to FLOAT above the wheel usually by a spring, when you push the horn button, it grounds the floating metal that has the wire hooked to it to the steering wheel which is ground, thus causing the horn relay to send a 12V to the horns.
Check out www.grantproducts.com for their instructions, should be pretty similiar one of their models.
The horn wire you linked to makes contact in a plastic container behind the steering wheel bracket that bolts to the column with a spaded connection. While it sits in this plastic container the other end should have a 1" long brass cylinder that is pressed against a circular brass grounding plate, thus you push the horn, ground wire goes thru cylinder to circular brass grounding plate which in turn connects to the brown lead on your horn relay near the radiator.
Sometimes people dump a few of these parts when they take the columns apart. I also found on my 63 nova the previous owners cut the horn relay under the dash in two places! I had to resolder both just to get a completed circuit to the horn relay under the hood.