Nardi wheel: Horn works intermittently

[SHIFT_*grind*]

I recently installed a Nardi wheel and Nardi hub. The horn didn't work at first, but the car had been sitting for a while and I thought maybe the battery was too drained. I got the car running the other day, and while driving around, I tested the horn. It was working fine.

Yesterday I drive the car, and it's not working :mad:

It's a 365mm Nardi classic, standard Nardi hub (one wire in the middle), very simple horn button with the one-prong contact in the back and the three-pronged clip that keeps it in place.

Is it possible that I just don't have the hub torqued down tight enough and it's not making a solid ground in the back? I torqued it down with a breaker bar so I figured that was enough...Or that the connection in the hub isn't complete because the wiring is bad? Which seems more likely?

[burnsauto]

i'd vote wiring.

[Xandy Boosts]

On mine, I had to use this ring that came with my WB hub so that the 3 horn ring prongs can hang good contact with the ground.

[kensreliableb18b]

grounds a bitch on a nardi horn iirc when i put mine in. got me frustrated. also, if you have the regular ball lock QR the opening is BARELY deep enough for the horn and the wires in their, you have to play with sticking the horn in otherwise there wont be travel in the horn and it'll get stuck and wont turn off.

[SHIFT_*grind*]

I don't have a QR, just the adapter hub.

[hustlervibes]

I don't have a QR, just the adapter hub.

As said above it's probably the horn not making a strong enough ground.

[SHIFT_*grind*]

So I need a ring for the 3 pronged clip to make better contact with the hub to ground out?

[A Spec Products]

Is it possible that I just don't have the hub torqued down tight enough and it's not making a solid ground in the back? I torqued it down with a breaker bar so I figured that was enough...Or that the connection in the hub isn't complete because the wiring is bad? Which seems more likely?

You shouldn't put that much torque force on the hub nut

It typically requires a very low amount of torque, enough by just hand tools

[SoSideways]

On my car, I know the little copper or whatever pieces that stick out from the steering column were not long enough to make contact on the back of the Works Bell hub.

Yeah, Works Bell, not janky knock offs, so it's not the hub, it's my car.

I bet your's has the same thing.

Just gotta by a strip of copper or something, screw that down to the column, and make sure the strip touches the little prong or tab or whatever you want to call it, that sticks out of the column, and then bend the strip so it also touches the back of your hub.

Done.

[ByeByeSti]

bad ground or loose connection id say

[MrChow]

You shouldn't put that much torque force on the hub nut

It typically requires a very low amount of torque, enough by just hand tools Yeah I was going to comment the FSM for S14 is 22-29lb..

[SHIFT_*grind*]

If the prongs on the back of the column aren't making good contact, might I just be able to melt a little solder onto a couple of them to make them a tiny bit longer? Something like that?

[SHIFT_*grind*]

If the prongs on the back of the column aren't making good contact, might I just be able to melt a little solder onto a couple of them to make them a tiny bit longer? Something like that?

Anyone? I got a strip of copper, but I don't recall there being anywhere I could just screw it onto the column so I thought extending the little prongs by soldering would be the next best thing...

[94cc0rd]

Hey I have a similar problem and didn't want to start a new thread.

I have a Nardi wheel + NRG quick release + Works Bell short hub on my s14.

Now when my steering wheel is off, and I press something metal against the 2 dimples on the quick release portion on the car, the horn sounds. When I put my steering wheel on and press the horn button, no sound. So I figured I had the two wires on the horn button side switched up. I switched the wires and now when I put my steering wheel back on, the horn sounds immediately, and won't turn off until I take my steering wheel off...

Any advice?