wiring help, horn button column?? ECJ5

hi do any yall have an idea as to where the wire from the horn button, goes down INSIDE the column, where does it come out of? its in a 55 cj5. thanks josh

 

is it combined in the "wiring harnest" that leads to the front of the jeep, left side?

is the power taped from the harnest, to the horn, then grounded once you push the horn button, to complete the circut? i just dont get how the current flows:?

 

photo posted here
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look for album titled: horn wiring
71 and prior is the top photo
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thanks!!!

 

The horn doesn't work the way a switch normally does ---that is, the switch controls the voltage to whatever is being powered.

The horn switch simply grounds one side of the horn to the steering column when the horn button is pressed.

It sounds counter intuitive, but if they did it any other way they'd have to have two wires running into the steering column instead of one.

So the +12 volts goes from battery to the horn (hopefully by now you have a fusible link installed somewhere in that circuit) and from the other connection on the horn into the steering box and up the steering column to the horn button.

When you press the horn, you ground that side of the horn and get a 'beep'.

kamel