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seanboy69 Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:35 am

On my 56 about halfway down the steering column towards the passengers side there is a knob or something?? What was it for? Its not hooked up to anything.

skippy Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:48 am

seanboy69 wrote: On my 56 about halfway down the steering column towards the passengers side there is a knob or something?? What was it for? Its not hooked up to anything.

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spectre6000 Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:26 am

What's it do exactly?

Bruce Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:44 am

Horn contact.

Snort Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:46 am

It's part of the ground circuit to the horn. Just as a generator brush works, it keeps contact with the steering column as it turns.

seanboy69 Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:13 pm

Thanks, I never heard of such a thing. The PO put a little chrome horn button on the dash. :cry:

Snort Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:49 pm

There's a little clip that holds it in the tube, pull the clip and work the unit out, you should find the remnants of the brush with a spring on the end of it, just like a power tool motor brush. Get a new brush, hook it up and you just might have a working horn button again.

RareAir Sun Mar 14, 2010 3:23 pm




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