Horn Help
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 3:41 am
Hi all,
I had Brian Buckland here for a few days, and we messed around with my Elan. He helped me balance my carbs and work on some other issues. It is amazing how much he knows. He right away saw so many things wrong with the car. It was scary. Here I think I know alot about Elans and in 10 minutes made me feel, well....sort of like I did not know that much. Not in a bad way, in that he did anything to do so. It was just obvious in comparison to what I know, he is so far above me. We did a lot of laughing and telling stories. It was one heck of a great day. Of course, when he heard that Bob Dance was coming the next day, he made me promise not to ask him how to tune Webers in front of Bob, but I did anyways.....gotcha Brian. If you ever get a chance to meet Brian, and to buy his book, do so. Hell of a nice guy.
One of the things I asked him about but we never really got into was my horns. We suspected it was grounds, but with people coming over and dinner and all of that we never really looked at it. The next day he gave his talk to the LOONYs and others from around the eastern USA and Canada, and before we knew it, his plane was leaving in an hour and we had to get to the airport. Brian could have talked for another few hours on Elans. But it will be one of the weekends I will not soon forget.
anyways.....
Maybe I am getting old but I just cannot seem to remember how the horns work. I have checked the purble, purple/black wires down at left hand horn and the white, white black wires on the right side horn. None of these are getting 12 volts I press the horn button. I checked the horn button and it does get continuity between the side wire and the center connector that hits the spring loaded button in the wheel center.
I assume the purple and purple/black wires are both hot or is one ground? I have a blown up wiring diagram and it appears to me that the purple/black does go back to the main 12 volt bus. The horns work if I ground them and put power to the top connectors. I can also put in a set of relays if necessary.
Is the horn switch in the center of the wheel just a "ground" completion? I assume that there is not a 12 volts positive in there, correct?
Is the purple black supposed to be hot 12 volts?
Well any help you can give will be appreciated.
And I just noticed that the fuel gauge does not work. Any connection do you think? I checked the wires on the fuel sender and the ground was actually off, but putting it back on did not fix the gauge.
Thanks guys.
Any help appreciated.
I had Brian Buckland here for a few days, and we messed around with my Elan. He helped me balance my carbs and work on some other issues. It is amazing how much he knows. He right away saw so many things wrong with the car. It was scary. Here I think I know alot about Elans and in 10 minutes made me feel, well....sort of like I did not know that much. Not in a bad way, in that he did anything to do so. It was just obvious in comparison to what I know, he is so far above me. We did a lot of laughing and telling stories. It was one heck of a great day. Of course, when he heard that Bob Dance was coming the next day, he made me promise not to ask him how to tune Webers in front of Bob, but I did anyways.....gotcha Brian. If you ever get a chance to meet Brian, and to buy his book, do so. Hell of a nice guy.
One of the things I asked him about but we never really got into was my horns. We suspected it was grounds, but with people coming over and dinner and all of that we never really looked at it. The next day he gave his talk to the LOONYs and others from around the eastern USA and Canada, and before we knew it, his plane was leaving in an hour and we had to get to the airport. Brian could have talked for another few hours on Elans. But it will be one of the weekends I will not soon forget.
anyways.....
Maybe I am getting old but I just cannot seem to remember how the horns work. I have checked the purble, purple/black wires down at left hand horn and the white, white black wires on the right side horn. None of these are getting 12 volts I press the horn button. I checked the horn button and it does get continuity between the side wire and the center connector that hits the spring loaded button in the wheel center.
I assume the purple and purple/black wires are both hot or is one ground? I have a blown up wiring diagram and it appears to me that the purple/black does go back to the main 12 volt bus. The horns work if I ground them and put power to the top connectors. I can also put in a set of relays if necessary.
Is the horn switch in the center of the wheel just a "ground" completion? I assume that there is not a 12 volts positive in there, correct?
Is the purple black supposed to be hot 12 volts?
Well any help you can give will be appreciated.
And I just noticed that the fuel gauge does not work. Any connection do you think? I checked the wires on the fuel sender and the ground was actually off, but putting it back on did not fix the gauge.
Thanks guys.
Any help appreciated.