Tackling two more punch list items

The rear windshield has been a pain of a project to say the least! I had to take it out because the rubber seal gasket I used was too short and incorrect. I purchased a new rubber seal and wanted to get it installed before I go back to work at school.

My wife and I tried and could only get so far. The top of the rubber gasket was not cooperating. It kept falling off of the car body and would not go back in place.

 

I called John over but after fifteen minutes of trying, we also failed. The window was then taken out and set safely in the rear seat.

 

So I decided to not let that hinder me on checking stuff off the punch list. I had only two electrical issues left to finish on the car, the interior light and the horns. I attacked the interior light issue first. I needed to screw in the door push switches and then make sure all the purple (power) and purple with white stripe (switch grounding) wires were hooked up correctly. They were all good.

 

Even after screwing the switches in to ground them, when I opened the door the light was still not going on.

 

I had a brilliant idea (or you can say the light bulb went off over my head) to check the obvious. And, sure enough, both the fuse and the lamp (bulb) were blown. So I swapped them out. Only the horn and interior light hook up to this fuse (which has power from the battery (purple wire) all the time and does not need the ignition switch). Therefore, this also cures one of the reasons why the horn circuit was not working.

 

And, viola!

 

The horns were another issue. I just had them rebuilt this past winter so I knew the horn units themselves were working. I figured it had to be a wiring issue (since the fuse was just changed). Here is what I started with.

 

Since the workshop manual had no information on how to correctly connect the purple (power) and purple with black stripe (horn switch grounding) wires, I did some internet research and found out the right way to do it. So I swapped the wires to look like this.

 

I then went into the car and hooked a jumper wire to the purple with black stripe horn wire and connected it to ground. The horns worked!! But after I put the horn button in the steering wheel and pushed it, nothing happened. I figure that something is amiss with the rotor (#16).

 

I put another call into Chris to see if he will come to help me with the rear windshield this week. I will have him check out the horn issue, too.

Thanks for visiting.

Toddy