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I was working on the horn button on my 1938 Chevrolet sedan. I have the banjo steering wheel. I got everything to work, but in the process, I was wondering how I would replace the bushing in the steering column. The wire looks a little frayed, and was thinking of replacing it.

Someone may have a different idea than me but I would be removing the column jacket, measuring the depth of the old bush and attaching a long draw wire to the horn wire and drive the old bush out the top. Dont take the draw wire all the way out of the mast and attach it to the new horn wire. When you push the new bush in make sure it only goes as far down as the old was.
The draw wire makes it easy to get the horn wire threaded through the jacket.
Tony

The on line vendors used to sell repop mast jacket bushings, they still might. I haven't replaced mine but I did remove the connector at the bottom, slide shrink tubing over the frayed wire up and through the hole in the mast jacket about an inch, then re-soldered the connector. My thinking was that the hole is the most likely place for a short to happen. It's been about ten years now with no issues.

"a short may happen"......no short can happen as the wire is only a ground wire. What will happen is the horn will blow by its self at the most inoppertune times.

You would have to remove the column. I used a wooden dowel to drive it out the top, there are indentation's on the column to stop the bushing from going into far at least on my 37 that's the way it is. I think you can buy repops I got one off of ebay in a GM box for not a bad price, but not the 1st one I saw on there some times people go fool and bid way to much.

Good Luck The Honer

Did you restore a banjo? I have one that needs restoration, but gonna run near $1000 including chrome and horn cap