[tcb] Re: Horn stopped working
- From: 71Westy@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:41:46 +0000 (UTC)
Tested and I have a hot lead coming to the horn. Grounded the other connection
and no horn. Must be the horn itself. ( I did tab it too but it didn't help)
Thanks for the help. I'll order a new horn. Someone had a really nice one a few
months ago (one of the on line vendors)
Trey
----- Original Message -----
From: "sammie smith" <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 3:56:11 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Horn stopped working
Sounds like the points stuck. Try tapping on it. Assuming it's a late model
horn there's not much you can do to the horn itself. Put a test light on each
wire going to it and make sure one of them is hot. The horn works by grounding,
it always has a hot lead coming to it. Assuming one wire is hot you can run a
test wire from the other horn pole to a ground spot on the frame and see if it
honks. If it has no hot lead coming to it then you have a blown fuse or wiring
problem. Early horns have adjustments and you can also take them apart and
clean the points. Not so with the later horns that are, as far as I know,
sealed.
--- On Mon, 10/11/10, 71Westy@xxxxxxxxxxx <71Westy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: 71Westy@xxxxxxxxxxx <71Westy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Horn stopped working
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, October 11, 2010, 2:22 PM
My horn stopped working (71 Westy) .... it barely made a sound when I hit the
button and then no more sound.
Does anyone have a procedure "how to check your horn" out there? I am going to
check the fuse right now.
Thanks
Trey
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