I'm redoing my interior and part of it is a new steering wheel. While I had the wheel off, I took off the turn signal mechanism and installed a new upper bearing. When I try to put it back together now, I got as far as torquing the steering wheel down when the horn started honking. From messing around with it, I know it has something to do with the spring loaded copper button on the turn signal mechanism (see first picture). If I press the copper button with my finger, nothing happens, but when I put the (brand new) turn signal cancelling cam on (see second picture), and push into place, the copper button does down and the horn starts honking. Am I doing something wrong, or do I need to by a new turn signal mechanism (which is only a year old) or what?
BTW, a good little tip someone passed on to me - Instead of pissing all my neighbors off with the horn, I connected the wire to a light bulb to see when the horn was on or off. Worked great...
