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2 Terminal Horn wiring for aftermarket column w/ relay?

1buckeyefan1

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So i'm a little stumped on how to wire up my horn button. I'm using a Flaming River tilt column (1 wire plunger through canceling cam), painless harness w/ horn relay (pictured). I had an older Scott drake steering wheel + 2 terminal horn button that I'd like to use.

I have double terminals on the rear of the horn button. I believe this is to be used for non-relay horn setups (1 power, 1 ground.. that was attached to the wheel). Can I use this with my 1-wire relay setup? Based on the threads i've read, I simply need to ground out to activate the relay in order to activate my horn? However, I tried both terminals last night and couldn't get any honk-honk sounds?
 

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BanditBronco

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I didn't dig too far into this, I have only wired one horn with a relay, but did you try grounding out both terminals on the horn button? As in jumper from one to the other then connect to the column wire? Also did you confirm that the system works if say you had a one wire horn button? So, in its current configuration if you ground out the column wire, do you get honk honk sounds?
 

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Basically one horn button wire is connected to ground, underneath one of the steering wheel adapter bolts.
Other horn button connects to plunger on turn signal switch.
The wire out the bottom of the column that is connected to the plunger is used to activate (ground) relay coil.

Did Painless harness come with a schematic?
Need a view of relay connections with wire colors.

What turn signal switch does Flaming River column use?
Need schematic of its connections & wire colors.

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1buckeyefan1

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Old-timer, thanks for the advice and diagram. That's all it was...I forgot my ground wire attached to the adapter. I even found it in my wire bin. Once I hooked it back up, all is good. Thx!
 

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