| Author | Message | ||
     Griffmeister |
Okay Froggy,I did a search first and came up dry.I know this is a minor problem but while washing the bike today I found that the horn was loose and resting on the headlights.Pulled the flyscreen and confirmed that the cheap little strap holding it had broken at the mounting bolt.It's actually two thin straps,I guess that's for vibration.For now I just reattached the horn directly to the cross bar,still clears the flyscreen there.It's only the stock horn,does anyone know if that will cause more problems or should I use something different? | ||
| Dirt |
Wow, talk about timely. You are not alone. I was troubleshooting another problem today and removed the flyscreen only to find my horn resting on the headlight as well. The two brackets had broke right where the screw mounts to the flyscreen inner frame. I used some flat stock I had laying around in the garage to fab up a new one. Took about 10 minutes. | ||
| Treefrog |
Hmmm. I just found out yesterday that one of the little strips was broken on my horn. I have noticed that my horn has been vibrating against the cover for a few days. I was in there playing with wiring because I wired up one of the Wolo air horns. | ||
| Mark_weiss |
When horn broke its straps, for the second time, I just mounted the horn directly to the bracket. The stud on the horn is just long enough. Be sure to use locktite. I don't notice a loss in sound. Mark SE AZ | ||
| Motorfish |
I replaced the wimpy stock horn with a Fiamm Freeway Blaster. I got it at Pep Boys for about $15. Don`t remember exactly how I mounted it, but I know it was a piece of cake, with no fabrication. I hooked it up to the stock horn wiring, w/o a relay, and never had a problem. Oh yeah, it is LOUD too! | ||
| Dio |
There was a loss in volume on mine when I replaced the broken stock set-up with a piece of flat. The horn needs to move a little for max volume. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I did the same a long time ago, but mounted mine "backwards" - stud facing front, horn behind the brace inside the flyscreen. Still loud enough...but someday I'll figure out where to put my Stebel (too much farkle-crap in there to fit it right now). | ||
| Griffmeister |
I have seen the Fiamm mentioned on more than one occasion.When it comes to mods I like to keep things simple,i.e. easy to install and not too far from factory unless it has been tested and field proven.If the Blaster is small and light I might consider that and forget about redoing the factory strap.Gotta pull the flyscreen again anyways,forgot the Loctite.By the way,there's a new Loctite called 249.It's medium strength and looks like blue plumbers tape,no drips no mess. | ||
| Reepicheep |
+2 on the Fiamm, advance auto had it. Been running one for a month or so now, nice and loud (louder than stock). It's about the same size physically as stock, but easier to mount. The stock horn needs to "ring", so you can't have it touching things or it works wrong. The FIAM is much less sensitive, do you can have something up against it and it is still nice and loud. The 2000 M2 had a horn much like it, the XB's were a step backwards. |
