[Tigers] Clear Hooters

[genepadgett at comcast.net]

Thanks Theo, 


I have always found your insights very valuable. As it so happens, I broke one of the terminals off on one of my horns yesterday. Most likely a result of metal fatigue from numerous tries at alligning the wires through my home made block off plates. BTW, on my version of these plates I just made a pass-through slot for longer brackets to attach to the original mountng holes. 


It appears the terminals are attached by aluminum rivets. I am going to drill out all the rivets this weekend and take the horn apart and see if I can attach a home made terminal with a new rivet. You mentioned you had adjusted your horns to a current spec. I would be very interested in knowing what that number should be, as long as I am taking this one apart. 


Thanks, Gene 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Theo Smit" <Theo.Smit at dynastream.com> 
To: tigers at autox.team.net 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 3:14:07 PM 
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Clear Hooters 

I'm in the 'no original Clear Hooters installation' camp, so I've resisted 
commenting up to now. I did at some point acquire some that had the original 
bracketry attached, so it was possible to try the horns on each side and see 
what made sense. If I installed them one way, the trumpets faced straight 
forward. That might seem to be a good way to get good sound, but then I 
realized that they'd also make great bug catchers that way. So I installed 
them the other way, where the trumpets are canted inward about 60 degrees. 
Then I installed horn-hole blockoff plates but I made up mounts that went off 
the blockoff plates, that preserved the original angles - they just push the 
horns ahead by a couple of inches. 

I did find that it was necessary to take the horns apart, clean up the points, 
and then reassemble them and adjust the current to spec, to make them work 
reliably... and that I had to install a relay to actuate the horns because the 
horn ring circuit on the steering wheel had way too much resistance to 
actually properly drive the horns. Now, they are good... I can look to see 
what I have on which side, but I can't vouch for originality. 

Theo 



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