Steering wheel horn help ?

[429bossman]

I have a 70 wood GTX steering wheel . The snap ring on the bottom that goes around the center spline shaft and holds down a copper contact that touches a contact in the column for the horn is always grounded . What breaks this ground. The copper ring has a rubber gasket to keep it from touching the wheel but when you add the snap ring it grounds the whole assembly. I got to be missing something that stops the snap ring from prematurely grounding the copper ring and not letting the horn switch make the ground. Thanks

 

[Beekeeper]

Your missing part of the rubber insulator. It wraps around and has a flange you might say that keeps the turn signal cancel from touching it and also insulates the edge of the hole in the copper contact to prevent it from making contact with the steering wheel hub.

 

[Beekeeper]

Here's you sketch of how it should be

 

[429bossman]

WOW THANK YOU Where do you get one ??

 

[Beekeeper]

I don't think they are reproduced. But I'm sure they were used on a number of mopar wheels from the 60s and 70s maybe 80s

 

[429bossman]

Anyone out there got one for sale ????

 

[440+6]

The bee man is right on. I made my own out of gasket material, over 20 years ago and still fine.

 

[Beekeeper]

I think you could get a piece of heat shrink that fits the hub and cut it to the same lenght
and shrink it on then do like 440+6 did and use some thin rubber gasket material for the rest

 

[429bossman]

I just used three O rings to form the bearer between the copper ring and the steering shaft and the snap ring and put a rubber gasket below the copper ring to keep iot from touching the wheel hub . Thanks again your drawing gave me the Idea .

 

[Beekeeper]

Sweet! Glad you got it fixed up