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Horn goes off for no apparent reason

ALMOST STOCK

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Does your horn go off for no reason or just randomly honk if so it could be that the foam between the 2 contacts on the horn switch pad has deteriorated and letting the contacts come together.


Horn Pad Replacement


Remove the Horn Cover from the wheel assembly by lifting up the front of the cover and removing it from the steering wheel.


Mark which wire goes to which terminal, that way when you get ready to reinstall the wires in the cover later you won’t have to not worry where they went.


Pull the rubber horn pad cover off of its plastic base, once the cover is off you'll see the two large flat copper round contacts with foam sandwiched in the middle. Gently push the 4 outer contacts with the small protrusion through the slots to release the top contact from the plastic base.


How that you have them split apart you’ll want clean off all of the old foam from both halves of the large round copper contacts, some replacement horn pad kits come with a Scotch Brite Pad for cleaning off any residue left from the old foam and cleaning the copper contacts.


If for some reason the top large copper contact is bent try to flatten it out some. Next install the new foam that will go in between the two contacts and reverse the procedure.
 

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