Missing Horn...Ok to swap with security horn?
09-11-2006, 01:41 PM
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Drifting
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Missing Horn...Ok to swap with security horn?
Team...finally realized why my anemic horn wasn't working. One of them is gone! I never realized the second note of the horn pair was missing (the one that goes near the lights, not down on the vacuum storage tank) 'til I read up on it and went to fix it. I'm guessing it had to go when the PO pulled the pop-ups and put in the light buckets.
Can I either run a line to the existing security horn, or move the security horn up front without causing a major problem? Is the security horn the right note (low?)? 1979 L82, automatic
Thanks, Steve
Can I either run a line to the existing security horn, or move the security horn up front without causing a major problem? Is the security horn the right note (low?)? 1979 L82, automatic
Thanks, Steve
09-11-2006, 10:31 PM
#3
Drifting
Correct replacement horns aren't cheap, but bolt on AC Delco horns that will work, aren't that expensive. Leave the alsrm horn alone, and drop a few $ on some cheap replacements.
09-12-2006, 07:56 AM
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Drifting
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Originally Posted by 71rdster
Correct replacement horns aren't cheap, but bolt on AC Delco horns that will work, aren't that expensive. Leave the alsrm horn alone, and drop a few $ on some cheap replacements.
Sounds like a plan. Best to replace as a set or is it OK just to add on the low note (ie, are they tunes as a pair)? Also, where should I mount it? I expect the original mount point is blocked by the light buckets. Is there a reason they are not right next to each other on the vacuum storage tank, some type of crazy harmonic interference?
Maybe I should just get a cool set of airhorns to mount on the H-bar for the t-tops, right next to the laser guided paintball shooter I use on ricer patrol?
Then again...maybe not...Many thanks, Steve
09-12-2006, 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by 71rdster
Correct replacement horns aren't cheap, but bolt on AC Delco horns that will work, aren't that expensive. Leave the alsrm horn alone, and drop a few $ on some cheap replacements.
but if you just want a good set of loud horns pep-boys sells a pair that I installed in a 66 coupe that look like OEM and sound like them too. I think I paided under $30 for the pair
09-12-2006, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Jims79
but if you just want a good set of loud horns pep-boys sells a pair that I installed in a 66 coupe that look like OEM and sound like them too. I think I paided under $30 for the pairI got a set of the Pep-Boys Highway Blaster horns too. They are LOUD. They look stock. They sound stock too--just louder.
I even replaced the alarm horn with one and wired it to blow when the front horns blow--I wanna'em to hear me coming or going.
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