Horn Installation #1
By Harald, Sumner, Wa
| [Editor's Note : This is
titled Horn Installation #1 as I expect that there will be other
variations to follow:]
First I'd like to thank Spunkmyer for his idea on where to mount the
Stebel Nautilus horn as he described in THIS
post. By holding the horn in front of the radiator, I could see that it would be possible to make a bracket that would position the horn close to the radiator and tilted back so that the fender could not hit it and rain could easily drain out of the opening. I next cut a piece of cardboard to get a rough idea of what shape my bracket would need to be (shown on left in picture below). It's real easy to trim with scissors until it looks like it'll work. I then used my cardboard as a template to cut a scrap piece of sheet metal so that I could actually/sorta mount the horn and get the bends correct. Now that I had proof that this idea would work, I traced my pattern on a piece of 1/8" steel. A little cutting, drilling, filing, bending and painting yielded the final product (on the right in the picture below). |
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| Here is a picture of the bracket installed on the Stebel
Nautilus horn:
I should note that I had to do some fine tuning on the bracket bends before painting it. The positioning is critical so that the horn won't hit anywhere on the radiator while turning the bars lock to lock. |
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Here's a front view of the horn installed. I haven't hooked up any wiring yet. |
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And finally, here's a side view of the horn installed: |
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| A couple notes for anyone else considering this
type of install. The two bolts that hold the horn are stock Yami bolts
that have a larger diameter shoulder between the head and the threaded
section. This requires drilling the holes in the bracket larger than the
thread size so that the bracket will sit flush against the plastic splash
guard and the bottom of the triple tree. You also have to wiggle the
plastic piece around while tightening the bolts so that it gets positioned
correctly on the bolt shoulder. I felt that there was still sufficient
thread engagement with the horn bracket installed. Because I didn't want a
heavy horn flopping around due to loose fasteners, Loctite was used on
these bolts. I didn't document wiring because it's standard fare. I did retain the stock horns, but the Stebel horn is so loud that I can't say whether I can still hear the stock ones or not. I just figured that more noise is always better! These horns get 2 thumbs up from me! |
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| Updated November 29, 2008 | |
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