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Mar 16th, 2019, 10:25 | #1 |
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Fitting wire for horn button through steering box
Does anyone have a cunning method of feeding the horn cable from the steering shaft and through the small hole in the steering box.
A friend "helped" me when he kindly pulled the old wire out completely before i could stop him. |
Mar 16th, 2019, 10:47 | #2 |
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Hmmm - smack his wrist severely! I had similar when changing the clutch cable on my Royal Enfield motorbike years ago!
Not tried it, but how about using a bicycle bowden cable down the hole and with a few twists get said person (with hands tied behind his back) to shout when it emerges out the bottom? P |
Mar 16th, 2019, 11:10 | #3 |
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It is quite a small hole isn't it.
I will have the same problem in a bit myself but as my steering box is removed from the car and is oil free I hope simple dangling and shoving with the steering box upside down will suffice...
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Mar 16th, 2019, 11:41 | #4 |
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It is neigh on impossible to thread the wire going down, as it is akin to threading a needle ...in the end of a pipe (that pipe necessary to prevent loosing Steering Box oil), but is not too difficult going up. Good Hunting! |
Mar 16th, 2019, 12:36 | #5 | |
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Replaced my Amazon horn wire a few months back - from inside the car down the column? No chance. From the engine bay upwards: took a couple of attempts but wasn't too difficult. I tried using a thicker bit of cable with the thinner gauge horn wire taped to it, but it struggled to get past all the obstructions in the column tube. In the end, I just wiggled the cable around fed it through into the car. Use a really long bit of cable - you don't want to accidentally pull it all the way through and have to start again and it gives you the freedom to get things just right before you cut it and start connecting the cable at either end. |
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Mar 16th, 2019, 22:49 | #6 |
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A length of thin but stiff brass brazing wire would work. They are usually about a metre long so you might have to solder 2 together.
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Mar 17th, 2019, 18:13 | #7 |
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For a graphic explanation of why you cant do it from the top, see post #5:
https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=264866 |
Mar 18th, 2019, 02:48 | #8 |
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On my PV, there is a spring and a contact at the top of the steering column, making me think my wire would have to be threaded from the top.
My thought is a piece of string (fishing line?), balled up at the end, or maybe tied at the end to some paper for suction. Then with your wife's vacuum, - I guess you might say Hoover - vacuum it up to the top. Tape on your wire and pull it down through. |
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The chances of threading a wire down through a fully assembled steering box into the small tube that allows the wire to pass but the oil to stay in place are pretty slim. Here are some pictures from that thread of mine (pictures on page 63 https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showt...277319&page=63) The little plate with the long tube is kinda shown even though you casn't see the full length of the tube If there's access you could remove the plate-with-tube assembly and thread downwards and then thread and fit the plate-with-tube assembly but I'm not sure if that would work in-situ
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