yesterday at noon I was driving from where I work to where my mom works to eat lunch. on one of those streets there is a low limb that I always swerve around. I was getting back on my side of the road when my horn honked. I thought, "ok maybe I just bumped it." so I ate lunch and was driving back to work. I stopped at an intersection and had to turn right. while I was in the middle of the turn and I was just gonna shift when my horn just started honking continually. so I tapped the horn to get it to stop. I drove down several more streets and then I had to turn right again.......there it goes. I stopped it. when I'm turning (right) into my parking spot.......you guessed it.

when I got home after several more right turns I told my dad what is going on. he messed with the horn cap for a little while since it was on there crooked. so he figured out what was wrong under the horn cap. we unplugged the horn under the hood, got the cap back on, and tried it. it worked then so I guess it was because it was sitting on there crooked.

it was kinda embarressing going through town with your horn blowing. my dad said if it starts blowing again just unplug it. this morning I was driving to work and my dad didn't close the hood good enough so it was bouncing up and down. I just had to stop and slam it.......it was annoying.

 

I had that same problem on a Dodge I owned. It would just beep randomly and **** people off. I just unplugged it and installed airhorns. I eventually plugged it back in and never had the problem again. If your horn pad was on crooked maybe it was grounding somehow or you might have a bare wire in there.

 

Same here, turned out to be the bearing at the top of the shaft that holds the steering wheel steady.It was worn out and when the wheel moved around the horn would blow.

 

That almost sounds convenient!

If you have any friends with an old 70's or early 80's chebby with the square horn pad, pry the pad off and stick a penny on the button--replace pad. Next time they hit the horn it will stick until it's disconected, or you take the penny out!

There's my words of wisdom for the day. No tech help--just a tip for screwing with someone. As if driving a bow-tie isn't punishment enough!

 

I'm glad I could be of service! I haven't pulled that trick or witnessed it for a while. My cousin drives an '86 chebby--I might have to bring that one back myself!

Yea, you gotta let us know how it works for ya!

 

Jolly, my dad has an 81 so maybe one day when he gets it running again I might try that.

 

sorry for the thread hijack, but Dr. Dirt could you post some pictures of your 4x2. i had a truck exactly like the one in your sig, except i didnt do the radio in the glovebox, and my horn did the exact same thing that yours is doing. i live in Austin, and am just curious if you drive my old truck. if you go to my gallery there is pictures of my old one.

thanks, Austin

 

my79f, my truck is a shortbed flareside. I'll work on getting the pictures on here and then I'll see if I can email them to you. btw nice 79, I checked out your gallery.

off topic: I bought my truck in Moulton, Texas in May 2007. the previous owner lived in Shiner and got the oil changed at Jiffy Lube in Katy (business man??????)

 

gotcha, as you can see my truck was a longbed. when i sold it, it had exactly whats described in you sig, except for the radio. and when i saw that i had a slight glint in my eye that it might be my old truck. oh well maybe i will see it again some day.

thanks, Austin

 

I told my dad that I might have found one of the previous owners of my truck. he said that would be pretty cool to know who had it before. yesterday I tried loading a pic of it on Photobucket and then my computer froze so maybe I'll try again.

your truck is nice. it's about 2 shades off of the color red on my truck.

 

allright.. about the horns. you boys aint got nuttin on me.lng story, o well
my momma's got a 67 Mustang w the aftermarket grant wheel. n e ways my dang truck broke dwn on me like usual(tires, i think that time, so nuttin to do with Ford) so i drove mommas mustang. well this car is a dang good lookin car and it sound about 10 times better than my truck ever will and its only got the 289. but my parents decided that they would get a personalized plate for it. they got MSTSALY ( they got sum since with the new stang and got 07HOSS) n e ways. my buddies that were jealous of me would call me Sally sometimes. o well i would smoke anything they had with it. (thats how they new the tag cuz id b up frnt)
allright so i was sittin in class and the principal calls and says that there was a blue mustang with the tag mustang sally with the alrm goin off. needless to say i had to get up in class n convince the teacher that was my car with that tag.
So i strolld up into the office and walked into that familar office of the principals and i figurd they were messin w me considerin that a 67 mustang doesnt hav an alrm system.he said he wasnt and tld me 2 go out into the parkin lot so i didnt complain. sure nuff the horn was goin off. the Ag class was outside laffin at me so i wlkd over, unhookd the batt then got in it. the horn button was layin in the seat. it had springd it self off. thank God it was the last week of school, nobody remembrs