Installing new horns?
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Melting Slicks
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Installing new horns?
One of the horns on my 82 is not working so I bought new horns from Corvette Central but unfortunately the brackets don't have threads for the factory screw. So I put a bolt through the hole with a nut on the other side along with the ground wire. They don't work now?? I did use a stainless bolt and nut, could that be it? Or would that matter?? By the way what a pita it is to get too. 
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Shouldn't.
Put the eyelet UNDER THE NUT directly against the metal framework. Maybe scuff the paint. A star washer would be a plus.
You'd think one of the two would work.
Sure the problem is the horns?
Not relay, fuse((stop/hazard), or contacts under the horn button?
Maybe even put the eyelet between the horn bracket and the framework.
Put the eyelet UNDER THE NUT directly against the metal framework. Maybe scuff the paint. A star washer would be a plus.
You'd think one of the two would work.
Sure the problem is the horns?
Not relay, fuse((stop/hazard), or contacts under the horn button?
Maybe even put the eyelet between the horn bracket and the framework.
Last edited by KapsSA; Feb 2, 2012 at 01:10 AM.
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Melting Slicks
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Shouldn't.
Put the eyelet UNDER THE NUT directly against the metal framework. Maybe scuff the paint. A star washer would be a plus.
You'd think one of the two would work.
Sure the problem is the horns?
Not relay, fuse((stop/hazard), or contacts under the horn button?
Maybe even put the eyelet between the horn bracket and the framework.
Put the eyelet UNDER THE NUT directly against the metal framework. Maybe scuff the paint. A star washer would be a plus.
You'd think one of the two would work.
Sure the problem is the horns?
Not relay, fuse((stop/hazard), or contacts under the horn button?
Maybe even put the eyelet between the horn bracket and the framework.
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I'm about to give up... I took them off and ground off the paint to bare steel on the brackets and remounted them. I got the pass. side to work but still the driver's still don't blow. So now I'm leaning the horn is defective. Is there a way I can take it out and test it??
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I'm about to give up... I took them off and ground off the paint to bare steel on the brackets and remounted them. I got the pass. side to work but still the driver's still don't blow. So now I'm leaning the horn is defective. Is there a way I can take it out and test it??
clamp wire to ground nut, then tap wire against negative lug on the battery.
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Eventually I'm gonna send off the original horns to be rebuilt..
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