To get your horns to work, first check and see if the horns themselves work by removing one, grounding the mounting bracket on the negative battery post and supply power to the connector on the horn with a wire from the positive battery post. It is a very common problem for the contacts on either the steering wheel or the horn button to be worn down enough to either make very poor contact or no contact at all. When you push on the horn button, that causes one, or both, of the contacts on the horn button to touch the contacts on the steering wheel, completing the circuit and causing the horns to honk. In this picture of the back of the three-legged horn button I have circled two contacts on it. You will also see two contacts, each made of white plastic with a little copper contact on the front of the steering wheel, held onto the wheel with a screw. That is in contact with one of the copper rings on the back of the steering wheel on the back and is in contact with the metal ring on the three-legged horn button. On the front of the steering wheel, with the three-legged horn button removed, you will see a little metal 'finger' sticking out. One of the horn contacts on the turn signal switch is making contact with one of the copper rings on the steering wheel, and the other horn contact touches the other ring. This is an 85 crown vic steering wheel, but, again, the horn stuff is the same. The third picture is the back of a steering wheel. The one with the yellow arrow is the one supplying power to the horns and the one with the blue arrow is the one that takes the power from the switch out to the horns themselves. The arrows are pointing to the horn contacts in the switch. I used it because the only new switches that I could easily find were all 68s, but the part concerning the horns is the same as a 65/66. The last picture is a new turn signal switch. The first picture is the wiring of everything horn-related that isn't right behind the steering wheel. The rest of this is post is for the 65/66 cars that have an alternator instead of a generator. Right now you can only see part of the wiring diagrams, but, if you click on one of them, the rest of it will show up. The first diagram is the 64 1/2 horns, which have a horn relay and only one wire for a contact in the turn signal switch. Here is how your horns are supposed to be. Just good, solid advice from people that know what they are talking about. None of that ridiculous one-upmanship, no flaming or abuse, none of that stuff. well, you probably need to try that." " I tried that and it helped, but it still isn't quite right." "Now you need to try this." If you go to and then go to the classics forums, you will be able to do that with a pretty hefty gathering of some very knowledgeable people that also happen to be very friendly. Some problems require a little bit of back and forth, as in, "Try this." "I tried that and it didn't change anything." " Oh. These are the people that I am trying help out with this blog. They don't want to re-engineer the entire car, they just want someone to fix what broke. They take their car to some technician when what they actually need is a mechanic, and this, frequently, does not work out very well at all for the owner. And I think, truth be told, that this is by far the largest class of Mustang owners. They just want this car that they dearly love to be able to cruise around smoothly and reliably, without having it dump them out on the side of the road or have it start making weird noises or belching out big clouds of funky-smelling smoke. show car that is so nice and was soooo expensive that they're afraid to drive it, they also don't want to make their car capable of achieving warp factor three. Add $3.99 for shipping, All 50 US states.There is a very large class of people that own 65/66 Mustangs that, as far as I can tell, anyway, have been, for the most part, ignored entirely. Will fit the following: 1966 - 1970 Bronco 1965 Comet 1965 Fairlane 1965 Falcon 1965 - 1966 Mustang Super high quality. NEW 1965 - 1966 Ford Mustang Turn Signal Switch Cam With Wire Harness Bronco Comet. Item: 121841202882 NEW! 1965 - 1966 Mustang Turn Signal Switch Cam With Wire Harness Bronco Comet.
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