Horn question gamma goat

[Al Capone]

Quick question . Top wire is 24 volt I know . Does it always have 24 volts and steering wheel button supply the ground to bottom wire when pushed ? My horn was acting up and not after pressure wash it stays on. The horn body itself is providing ground even with bottom wire disconnected . Am I understanding this correctly ?

 

[m38inmaine]

Both wires at the horn are marked 25, it doesn't matter which way they are plugged into the horn. One is your 24v power going to the circuit breaker panel, the other is ground going to the horn button. Pressing the horn button completes the ground circuit. The horn itself does not need to be grounded as the horn circuit provides the ground. If the horn is staying on the horn button circuit is defective or your ground wire is shorting to ground.

 

[Al Capone]

My horn itself is shorting to ground to chassis . So need a horn .

 

[wsucougarx]

I found one on E*** for $9. It was a brand new unit for the M998.

 

[Impressus]

I'm a new member here, and I just picked up a Gama Goat locally (Great Falls, MT). I'm starting to pick away at it and seeing as the topic is the horn: how do you take it apart. it looks like I'm missing the outer cover, what I see on mine has a center hole in the "outer cover' on mine. It works but I have to work it around a bit when I press on it, so I must have some corroded contacts, but for the life of me I can't get it apart.

 

[wsucougarx]

I got my Goat from Great Falls as well. In fact it was exactly one year ago today (10-8-15). I got mine from a guy named Shawn. You disassemble the horn by pushing down the button firmly and rotate the horn button assy. It'll release the horn cup of sorts.

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[Al Capone]

I broke one of the plastic retainers on the lower plate of horn assy but was able to buy this from red river. Mine horn minds worked also at first then it crapped out I need a replacement horn itself for mine

 

[m38inmaine]

Impressus, I have a complete horn button set up if you need any parts.

 

[Impressus]

thanks for the info on the horn, I basically did that and nothing rotated, guess I have to be a little more forceful, I picked mine up from Shawn as well, you probably seen mine when you picked yours up. it was painted fire engine red. Had to change that first off. I got mine Jan 13 2016.

 

[wsucougarx]

Was yours the one with the rebuild tags? Did you get yours last Oct. as well?

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[Impressus]

thanks, once I get into it, I'll know for sure, but I think I'm going to be looking at needing some.
thanks

 

[Impressus]

no, no rebuild tags on mine. brakes were shot I had to go completely through them

 

[wsucougarx]

Sorry just saw you got yours in Jan. I had to really push down with my palm to rotate it. There are three tabs that the horn assy rests against via spring.

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[Impressus]

So what kind of shape was your in. My engine ran fine, though it is gutless and I changed out the filters and that jumped my top end speed up from 30 mph to a little over 40 mph. And my pre-heater doesn't work.brakes were gone, tires are good,

 

[wsucougarx]

My truck was actually in decent shape. It had a few parts missing. But overall I was pretty happy with the truck. I have a rebuild thread on the Goat if you want to see what I did to her: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showth...s-M561-Gama-Goat-Acquisition-and-Build-Thread
I remember your truck now. It had a black roll cage on her? When I picked up my Goat, Shawn had four on hit property that he was selling.

 

[Impressus]

Yes it has the black roll cage. looks like you got the best of the litter. the only one left when I got mine was the yellow one that looked pretty canibalized. He had it on Ebay for a while, I just noticed recently that its not on there any more. There was no title with mine and I didn't get on that right away, but I got it licensed now and at the courthouse they determined that it was a 1 1/4 pickup truck, which means I have to license it, get tags every year. Out here you can get permanent tags if a vehicle is over ten years old...........and it has to be under a 3/4 ton. I tried to get it licensed as an ATV because ATV/s motorcycles, boats all get a one time permanent plate. Alas, I couldn't get that. But the tags are cheap enough, so is insurance.

 

[wsucougarx]

I got a decent truck. He actually had 3-4 more camouflage ones that he sold before mine. They were in awesome shape. I think he got 8 Gama Goats off GSA out of the Idaho Forest Service. Luckily the Forest Service didn't do anything with my truck. It had IFS inventory labels and IFS serial number on her but no holes or any other equipment. If you have any questions or issues let us know. We'll help you as much as we can. I've accumulated a few parts in the past 12 months. If you're needing parts like carrier side racks or anything like that, I have some extras I can sell.

 

[Impressus]

thank you very much; I'll be needing stuff, I don't have the side racks among other things. I had no lift rings, got them now, I have to hooks that are around the top outside of the back end. I ran some drain plugs down, just waiting for them on there end. I'll take you up on your offer. I'm sure I'll be having questions.
Martin