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Originally Posted by Tom in TN
Thread update: (for those who are interested)
Well, the old wire is out and the ‘pull wire’ is hanging out both ends of the tube…but I have learned a few things.
The spring isn’t broke. Actually, there is/was nothing wrong with the ‘ball end’ of the horn wire. As I now understand it, my problem was that when the ‘ball’ was pushed inward, the entire horn wire moves inward as well and I discovered, as I was pulling out the old wire, at about 1/2 tube, my horn wire was covered/saturated in thick grease. It appears that this grease was what was holding the ‘ball’ in the retracted position. The upper end of the old horn wire is fine.
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So you are saying that the steering column tube itself has chassis grease inside it?
Your 55 uses 90W as a steering box lubricant.
Possibly in it's service history the box developed a leakage and rather than re-sealing the box, the owner filled it with chassis grease (through the column tube).
Now why does this not surprise me?
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