MG-Cars.net

Welcome to our resource for MG Car Information.

Recommendations

Parts

MG parts spares and accessories are available for MG T Series (TA, MG TB, MG TC, MG TD, MG TF), Magnette, MGA, Twin cam, MGB, MGBGT, MGC, MGC GT, MG Midget, Sprite and other MG models from British car spares company LBCarCo.

MG TD TF 1500 - Steering Wheel Horn Button

Does anyone know how the steering wheel horn button, sold by Moss many years ago, worked? I looked in the archive and came up blank. Any info would be appreciated with the idea of duplicating the parts, if possible.
Jim Merz

Jim, I stumbled across on on e-bay in the collectables section a couple of years ago. I did post here and got some feedback that it wasn't so hot.

LaVerne

LED DOWNEY

Found the thread in the archives Jim under "Center horn button kit". By the way while looking I see that the images are now back with the archives.

LaVerne
LED DOWNEY

I bought a Lucas steering wheel boss, with a button in the center where our MG plastic logo piece would be. You can directly swap them out. This does require putting a contact washer below the plastic, where there is only a rubber spacer now.

The seller, who posted he had one left on this forum, gave me the following wiring instructions.

"You will have to run a single wire down inside the column down to the 3 eyed connector below the generator. It should be 14 gauge. The wire should have two or three turns around the column to wind and unwind while steering (same system as on Y type)."

"Rather than running a fresh wire back to the dash from the column, I liked to used the rarely used fog lamp wire that should be floating loose under the radiator area. You can then unhook it from the idle fog lamp switch and use a double plug-in connector to splice it in near the back of the original horn push. Of course, if your car HAS a fog lamp, you will have to run a fresh wire."

I have not tried the intstallation yet, as I have to paint the boss to match the bronze on the wheel hub.

Hope this helps

Larry
Larry Karpman

I made my own from the installed one, a spring under the emblem, a long wire down the centere of the column coming back up the outside to a double wound spring fixed at each end, the lower to the colunm and the upper to the body. The spring is wound so that turning the wheel in one direction tightens the upper half of the spring and looosens the lower and the other direction reverses that. I wound the spring from 12 gauge copper house wire. Picture of this attached.
I made a cover for this from a piece of shop vac wand showing at the lower (left) end.
John


John Redman

Jim, I tried one back in the 70s I think. Seems there was a bakelite type plate fastened to the tiny screws that hold the felt bushing retainer plate on (at the firewall end of the column)with a copper finger or two (brushes) that rode on a clamped-on slip-ring "comutator" that was fastened to the inner column. Seems you had to run a wire through the column perhaps? It was flimsy and we never could get it to work very well. George
George Butz

Last year I bought a rough steering wheel through eBay. I'm unsure of its origin, probably one of the TD's cousins. There is a pointed device in the hub that looks as if it could be the contact for a horn button. I've attached an image below.


Bud Krueger

Thanks for all the inputs guys. I now have second thoughts about its installation.
Jim Merz

Here's a pic of the contacts in the lucas horn push that fits the TD steering wheel. The button has a brass washer on it's bottom to make the contact. If you use the plastic MG Center from the TD, you'd have to add a washer to the back in place of the rubber spacer.

Cheers

Larry


Larry Karpman

While we are on this subject,does anybody have a source for the chrome ring and centerpiece on the steering wheel hub. I have three hubs with bad logos.
Sandy
Sandy Sanders

This thread was discussed between 14/03/2008 and 15/03/2008

MG TD TF 1500 index

This thread is from the archive. The Live MG TD TF 1500 BBS is active now.