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Old Jun 30, 2010 | 06:27 AM
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horn help

I need a liitle help on hooking up my horn for my '60. My steering box has a long green wire hanging out of it, I assume that's for the horn. The question is: is it for hooking it to a 12V source or to the horn relay. My trucks horn was shot and nothing was hooked up when I got it.
 
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Old Jun 30, 2010 | 07:17 AM
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The horn wire from the column should go to the horn relay.
It grounds the relay to energize it.
Wire from horn and 12V source are the other relay wires.
 
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Old Jun 30, 2010 | 01:12 PM
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Yes the wire dangling from the steering box is from the horn button.

You need to mount a 12 volt horn relay on your firewall (if there's not one there already - if there is replace it) and hook it up like this (looking up at it from the bottom):

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The term "Hot Bus" is a 12 volt power source. Either a fuse box that is hot all the time (not turned off withthe ignition switch) or the starter solenoid post that connects to your positive battery cable.
 
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