Joe Blaze
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My steering wheel hub is cracked, so i decided to get a replacement wheel. I wound up getting one off a '71 Chevelle. How can I adapt the horn spring to let the horn work with this wheel?
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How do you hook up a different GM horn to a '71?
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Joe Blaze
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i thought this question would be a ground ball for the experienced brothers we have on here. 
Well, speaking for myself, I'm not as familiar with the two different type as I need to be to give you any ideas without seeing the two wheels side by side.
But, both systems ground the horn wire to make it blow, so if there is a way to hook that wire to the spade connector in your pic., it should work as long as the body of the wheel is grounded.
As for everybody else, I suspect its a problem with your title. I didn't click on it for a while because it seemed too simple.
If you read it the way its written, you are trying to hook a different truck horn to your truck.
Not a different steering wheel horn button.
And hooking up a different horn is just a matter of bolting it on and plugging in the wire.
If no one else jumps in, try re-posting it with a title like...."new steering wheel, how to hook up the horn?"
But, both systems ground the horn wire to make it blow, so if there is a way to hook that wire to the spade connector in your pic., it should work as long as the body of the wheel is grounded.
As for everybody else, I suspect its a problem with your title. I didn't click on it for a while because it seemed too simple.
If you read it the way its written, you are trying to hook a different truck horn to your truck.
Not a different steering wheel horn button.
And hooking up a different horn is just a matter of bolting it on and plugging in the wire.
If no one else jumps in, try re-posting it with a title like...."new steering wheel, how to hook up the horn?"
i thought this question would be a ground ball for the experienced brothers we have on here.
That wheel is so awful...
Sorry, I'm sure everyone was trying to be nice and just keep quiet about it in the hopes that you'd find a different one to use.
Joe Blaze
1/2 ton status
Thanks, you are right, it is a misleading title. The dilemma for me is how to get a spring loaded plunger style post to connect to a spade terminal. I cant figure a mod to get it to work.
Oh, I thought you had a problem...........
Try grabbing the post, and pulling up. There should be a wire under there hooked to the brass center of that post.
Most trucks have enough slack to pull out the wire a little. If not, you may be able to cut a wire tie or something at the bottom of the shaft.
Cut the post off, attach a short extension to that wire with a spade connector on the end.
I would remove the brass end piece from the post, and put the post back in the hole around the wire with a little glue, to act as an insulator.
You don't want that wire rubbing on the edge of that metal hole.
I got nothing other than seeing that wheel brought back a lot of memories, my first car was a 72 Chevelle. I tried to break a wheel just like that with my face in a wreck. I hit a dead stop doing 80, face hit the wheel, my face got trashed, the wheel looked good as new.
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Joe Blaze
1/2 ton status
Well, after wasting a couple of hours staring at this thing, the beer fog wore off, and i rigged it up temporarily until brother Smitty sends me a piece.
I know alot of you guys dont like this wheel, but it only cost me $40 at a swap meet and there are no cracks, and the smaller diameter makes it have greater clearance to work under the dash.
I know alot of you guys dont like this wheel, but it only cost me $40 at a swap meet and there are no cracks, and the smaller diameter makes it have greater clearance to work under the dash.
BTW, if you really want to tick folks off here, 70's something Lincolns came with a steering wheel with the horn ring in the inside of the wheel.
In other words, it looked like a normal wheel, with no center horn button.
The wheel had a rubber strip along the inside of the wheel's rim. To blow the horn, you just squeezed the wheel with your finger tips anywhere along the wheel.
It was great! Not only could you blow the horn without taking your hand off the wheel, but in an emergency you often blew the horn automatically.
When you saw trouble you would instinctively grip the wheel harder and that would many times blow the horn.
The only downside was if you lost power. The steering on that barge was geared for more responsiveness, and if you lost power steering, it was a bear to turn the wheel. So, as you were trying to guide it to the curb, you were blowing the horn the whole time.
If you could find one of those wheels, not only would you get a neat horn, but it would have the big Lincoln symbol in the middle.
In other words, it looked like a normal wheel, with no center horn button.
The wheel had a rubber strip along the inside of the wheel's rim. To blow the horn, you just squeezed the wheel with your finger tips anywhere along the wheel.
It was great! Not only could you blow the horn without taking your hand off the wheel, but in an emergency you often blew the horn automatically.
When you saw trouble you would instinctively grip the wheel harder and that would many times blow the horn.
The only downside was if you lost power. The steering on that barge was geared for more responsiveness, and if you lost power steering, it was a bear to turn the wheel. So, as you were trying to guide it to the curb, you were blowing the horn the whole time.
If you could find one of those wheels, not only would you get a neat horn, but it would have the big Lincoln symbol in the middle.
Joe Blaze
1/2 ton status
I fixed it for good, with the help of a brother on another forum who sent me the wire i was looking for. I finally have a nice functioning steering wheel horn.
bigbadchev84
1/2 ton status
I put a mid 90s steering wheel in my 67' I just used a male bullet style crimp connector and shoved it into that little tube, Works great.
