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    Me so Horn-eee

    After about 10 years of listening to horns that sound like a sick goose, I thought Id try a $10 replacement. It worked a couple years ago on an old Honda I had. This time on the GS all I got was a bee...and then the fuse blew. So I break out a can of electric contact cleaner and proceed to fill up the old orig horns with cleaner through the little adjuster screw I removed. 1/2 a can later and some shaking for good measure both horns WORK like new. Been a long time since I heard that sound. \\/
    82 1100 EZ (red)

    "You co-opting words of KV only thickens the scent of your BS. A thief and a putter-on of airs most foul. " JEEPRUSTY
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    I wish I had some air horns, to help alert those trucks on I-95. I have thought about putting some on, but wondered where to put the compresser.

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      #3
      The FIAMM horns work pretty well

      You can buy a pair in high/low tone combination, and it has that dissonant tractor/trailer sound that gets people's attention, and each horn is 130 dB. You should use a relay so the button isn't handling too much current, just enough to pull in the relay. I wired the feed up directly from the battery on the horn side, and you can put a fuse inline to protect your electrical system. They're not air horns, but they're pretty good!
      1979 GS 1000

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        #4
        You don't need air horns. :shock:

        Just go down to Wal-Mart or your favorite auto part store and get the Highway Blaster horns. Get both, the high and low tones. You may need to install a relay, especially if the horns only have a single terminal and are grounded through their mounts.

        You will still sound like a truck, but it will be more like a Silverado or F150 than a Peterbilt. 8-[


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          #5
          I got this for my birthday (the chrome one), and it screams! well worth the investment...

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            #6
            Originally posted by NATEO View Post
            I got this for my birthday (the chrome one), and it screams! well worth the investment...

            That should turn some heads ! Happy Birthday !! \\/
            82 1100 EZ (red)

            "You co-opting words of KV only thickens the scent of your BS. A thief and a putter-on of airs most foul. " JEEPRUSTY

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              #7
              It may not have been the cleaner that did the trick, but the removal and re-insertion of the adjuster.

              I have had a seemingly dead horn resurrected with nothing more than a twist of the adjuster.
              Bertrand Russell: 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.'

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                Originally posted by gsgeezer View Post
                I wish I had some air horns, to help alert those trucks on I-95. I have thought about putting some on, but wondered where to put the compresser.

                go to pod filters on the carbs and then you can put a small compressor where the air box used to be \\/

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