I Hammered my horn switch pretty good while avoiding a accident, and afterwards my horn started only working when the wheel was turned, and now its not working at all? Ive torn apart the contact plate and put it back together and still no dice? Toyota Gurus of yotatech, YOUR ASSISTANCE PLEASE.

 

Did you clean anything while you were in there? You may have to put washers under the contact plate and/or a .22 shell over the spring pin

 

yep, the contact wears down over time. i made some spacers out of little bits of plastic that goes all the way around. now mine works all the time again.

 

The pin and spring are available at the dealers for a few dollars. Think now they well you one for a Corolla but it is the same part.

 

Hmm, looked pretty clean while i was in there, ill take another look at that, also, any pics of the .22 casing fix? Im shure i have at least a dozen of those within a 3 foot radius of me.

 

I tried to find that thread but my Google broke

 

that sounds terminal... XD

 

Teehee

 

Does it work when you touch the pin to the steering shaft?

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Another thing I got fixed on my 91 was the horn. I know this happens alot and hopefully this will help some in the future. Pull the steering wheel with a Steering Wheel Puller that you can usually rent from a parts store for free. Then check it by touching the brass spring in the 11 oclock postion. I just used my wrench. If it honks it is most likely the brass ring on the back side of the wheel. Not the best picture but you should get the idea.



If so, here is how I fixed mine, I like the .22 shell better.

The way I fix this to take a small flat blade around the edge of the brass ring and raise it a little bit and slip some paper gasket under the brass ring. It has worn itself down and not making contact with the 11 oclock post.

Here is a better picture of the Brass Ring and my pointer finger is what makes contact to sound the horn. I just clean them with some fine grit sandpaper.




Got the horn to working. I used a .22 shell to make the contact to the steering wheel. I found this on Yotatech and like it better then how I used to fix my horns. I have it listed on my 88 4Runners build thread for more details about getting the horn to work on the first page.

 

Plate horn contact part # 84312-20011. $4.98 through an online Toyota discount parts dealer.

 

Thanks snobdds... I am going to add that part number to my horn fix.

 

Fixed, turns out it was the horn itself, replaced it, Good To Go.

 

Great job!! Always nice to know when someone gets it fixed and updates when done.