Turn signal switch

[hunter1]

So, what are the spring-loaded contacts in the turn signal switch for? I know they contact the plated fiber disc, but why are they there? What's the point in the disc to make the circuit? One of the contacts on mine is bent and when the wheel is turned it causes a short to the housing. Can I just cut the wire before each of the contacts and splice it together?

 

[DirtDonk]

Those are the horn contacts.
The 66 through 73 models had two contacts. The mid74 through 77 (and any Ford vehicle that uses a horn relay) used one contact.
The two contacts closed the circuit with power going up the wire into the column, then back down straight to the horns.
The single contact simply closed to ground when you push the horn button and honked the horn by triggering the relay.

I believe all the factory steering wheels had plated, metal traces, or perhaps tin plated copper? Most aftermarket versions that I’m familiar with just thin copper sheet.

 

[hunter1]

OK, thanks. The more I looked at them, that's what I thought they were. I didn't have a stock steering wheel on the column and didn't have a horn either. Thanks!

 

[DirtDonk]

If you have a two contact switch, make sure that whatever steering wheel you have has the adapter with the two metal traces. Otherwise the horn won’t work, or it will work all the time.
Single contacts get a single trace, dual contacts get two traces.

 

[hunter1]

Thanks, that helps.