BugOutBoy91

my 88 yota build when i first got it horned worked ok but tried it today and no blow haha. i took horn off and straight wired it to battery to check it its fine. so i pulled sterring wheel apart its the desighn with the two buttons on the steering wheel support and cleaned the contacts still nothing. i cant find my haynes manual to se the elctrical diagrams or the fuse box digram. could someone please help me out here?

abecedarian

Do your hazard / emergency blinkers / 4-way lights work?

abecedarian

The horn and flashers use the same fuse....

Just saying.

BugOutBoy91

yea all my hazards liights and turn signals and such work but still no horn. i knw the horn itself works i bypassed it redneck style with some old speaker wire straight to the battery and it work just fine as i can still hear the horn ringin in my ear. and pulled apart the streeing wheel and cleaned the contacts for the horn buttons and checked the wire looked good tomorrow ill pull ths steering column apart hopeing to figure it out. any other ideas?

abecedarian

Vote for Obama- he'll fix everything?
Just kidding.

Tried triggering the horn from the wire in the steering column?
Seriously, try working from the horn back to the switches: you'll eventually find the problem.

BugOutBoy91

how would you trigger it from the horn im confused like bypassing the buttons maybe? and yea obama and his change maybe thats why i dont have a nickel for a coke no more cuz he stole everyones change. se least on the up side he was being honest upfront he was after YOUR Change. haha

abecedarian

I was thinking more like tracing the horn wire back through the harness and checking it works: putting 12v on the wire and hearing the beep. When you hit a point in the wire where it doesn't beep, you know the problem is between the last beep and where it didn't beep.

And don't get me started on Obama.

BugOutBoy91

haha yea thats the plan for this afternoon and lets not hi jack a thread in to politics but atleast i can count one other person as well as myself to vote him out of office. but i searched and fount this same thread from a much older postin a differnt forum section and theres some doo hickey between the sterring wheel and the sterring column that can wear down and wont make contact. have you herd of that before?

Terrys87

iTrader: (1)

In my 88 thread I had the same issues. It is located where to find it on the first post. Probably your brass ring on the back side of your steering wheel not making contact with the post. Just pry up on the ring and put something behind it.

BugOutBoy91

hay thank you guys i pulled steering wheel apart the other day and shure enough thats what it was it was the post looked worn down and just wasnt makeng contact so i pulled the ring off put a few washers under it works fine now. but any idea how to replace the post can it just be screwed out and replaced with another or is it some drastic thing i have to pull the radiator out to do it? haha

abecedarian

The "post" is a spring loaded contact that sort of floats.
It's part of the steering column assembly, if I remember correctly.
Finding a replacement would be done through either salvage yard or dealer.

19864runnerHawaii

yeah, salvage yard should have it. and it can be replaced.

22R4X4

If the horn and flashers dont work, whats my problem? Been driving without turn signals for a month now lol.

yotatime420

had the same problem with my 88 pulled the plastic cover around the steering wheel grabbed a .22 shell out of the bed put it in and the horn works. great easy fix

windbag

Ditto - worked for me too.