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Re: TR6: Horn Problem

To: don.guthrie@xtra.co.nz
Subject: Re: TR6: Horn Problem
From: jibrooks@juno.com (Jack I Brooks)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:12:46 EDT
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <1.5.4.32.19961021022905.0067b498@xtra.co.nz>
Don,

No direct Triumph experience, but other british experience (Norton). I
think it sounds like a tuning problem.  Find the adjusting screws, thay
have a lock nut,  energize the horns and adjust the screw until you like
the note(s).  You're done.

Jack Brooks
Hillsdale, New Jersey
1960 TR3-A TS69032L
'74 Norton Commando Roadster

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:29:05 +1300 Don Guthrie <don.guthrie@xtra.co.nz>
writes:
>Summer's nearly here (New Zealand) and I've nearly got my winter 
>project
>('74 TR6 PI) into a warrantable state, but... the twin horns don't 
>work.
>
>Symptoms are:
>
>When I press the horn button the relay clicks and there's also a click 
>from
>the horns themselves (this click isn't loud enough to scare anyone).
>
>A circuit tester shows that there is current between the relay and the 
>horns
>when the horn button is pushed.
>
>My Haynes manual is pathetically short on this subject - anyone got 
>any
>ideas? Any suggestions on tests to isolate the problem?
>
>Cheers,
>Don Guthrie
>'74 TR6 PI
>
>
>

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