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Early cj5 horn wire

Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by modadds, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. modadds

    modadds New Member

    Has anyone ever tried to fish a new horn wire down through the steering column ? How can you get the wire down the column without taking everything apart?
    Mike Wedin
    Sweetwater,TX
    1961 CJ5
     
  2. Howard Eisenhauer

    Howard Eisenhauer Administrator Staff Member

    Push a wire up from the bottom & either solder the contact stud to the top of it, or, use it to pull the pre-made horn wire down.

    H.
     
  3. Greevesman

    Greevesman Member

    I just stuffed it down from the top. It came right out the bottom.
     
  4. army grunt

    army grunt Member

    Go buy a lottery ticket:)you hit the 1/4" tube at the bottom, one in a million shot.
     
  5. mickeykelley

    mickeykelley Well-Known Member

    I know this is an older thread, but I'm doing my research before I start. So just to be clear, at the bottom end of the steering column out under hood down by the ground, there is a single wire popping out then it goes into a harness. That is the horn wire, right?
     
  6. Sounds like it
     
  7. army grunt

    army grunt Member

    Yes thats it.:)
     
  8. Walt Couch

    Walt Couch sidehill Cordele, Ga. 2024 Sponsor 2023 Sponsor 2022 Sponsor

    To be clear, the wire comes out the end of the Ross box (if original) as the steering shaft is one piece from the top all the way through the Ross Box.
     
  9. mickeykelley

    mickeykelley Well-Known Member

    Ok. After spending time under the dash looking for where I came out like all the vehicles I had worked on in the past, that was the only possible wire I could find. Now to figure out where in the harness it is. The prior was at the horn was just laying on the inner fender broken off.
     
  10. Dave B

    Dave B Frankenjeep '67

    The stiff wire inserted at the bottom hole and run up to connect to and drag back down the horn wire works.

    To whom it may concern--If the steering has been converted from original , as in my Saginaw, the "horn wire in the tube" will get its neck wrung (broken) with steering rotation. A special (home-built) rotator swipe may be possible, or as many do-- a horn button mounted elsewhere, often the dash.
     
  11. 1960willyscj5

    1960willyscj5 Well-Known Member

    Mine is strapped to the underside of the steering column, just beneath the turnsignal controller.