Anyone ever put the horn alarm option back to together in a '69? Would you be willing to walk me through it or give me a general idea of what is going on? With my new roof, I'd feel better repairing this and it was an original option on my car.

-Adam

 

....Don't understand the new roof comment. However, my 70 has the factory alarm and I've "renewed" it. First I bought a new switch - on the 70, the switch is mounted over the license plate, which I think is the same location as on the 69. My horn was still in place, so I removed it and just cleaned it up and replaced it. I had my exhaust/mufflers removed so removal of the horn was easy. Don't know if it would be easy to remove with the mufflers in the way. My original harness had been cut, so I bought a new harness. Installing the harness in the rear of the car was very easy. (also my fuel tank has been removed). Installing the harness inside the car means removing the storage compartment carpet since the harness runs under this portion of the carpet and wire also run underneath the carpet to the alarm relays located in the jack storage compartment. Next the harness runs along side the driver's sill plate under the carpet, so you have to remove that. Now things start to get a bit complicated. Wires from the harness are routed to the door open switch (the switch that turns on the cabin lights when you open the door.) Since you have to run one set of wires over the the passenger's side switch, this will be difficult with the dashboards, etc all in place. Since my interior is out, this was not a big problem. Finally, a wire runs through the firewall to a switch that senses the hood open/closed position. This switch is mounted by the vacuum door actuator. And lastly there's a wire that runs back to the windshield wiper to pick up a ground connnection.

Oh, I forgot, there's also a connector that connects into the fuse box for power. Since I was replacing my old harness, I just removed it's connector and plugged in the new.

Installing the alarm harness is a very involved job if you don't have a lot of the car dissassembled.

 

It uses the horn in the front of the car? My relay in the storage compartment is rusted badly. I have side exhaust and half my carpet out. I might get some stuff this week. Thanks! Does yours work perfectly?

 

Here is a diagram that might help.

 

Whoa, thanks!

 

There is a separate alarm horn mounted in the drivers side rear wheel well. If you have undercar exhaust it will make it a little tougher to get to the horn just because of where the pipes run. If your horn is bad and you don't care about originality most autoparts stores horns should bolt right up. I picked up a freeway blaster at carquest and it is plenty loud.

 

We have a help page on this on our web site that will show you where all the parts are located. Here is the link: http://willcoxcorvette.com/repairand...lp.php?hID=212

 

Thanks! I was going to go to Zip, but if you have a kit I could buy...I figure I need the key and lock, the flasher unit, the relay (in compartment), and I'll get a new D not horn just to be safe. Should that be enough and do you offer it all? I would guess that all my wiring is okay. Also, it would be a mess to replace it all. I have side exhaust which sounds like a plus in this case.