got some for my truck and was wonderin if anyone else had em. I think ill just put a small tank on the truck somewhere (under the hood maybe) like one of those portable air tanks and either just refill it occasionally or put one of those small on demand pumps on there.

 

We got a little $20 under the hood kit from harbour freight

Our horns were not working, the steering wheel is all taped up so we got it while browsing the store one day(that place is like crack).

No idea how loud the stock horns are but this one seemed like an adequate horn. A different type or horn noise than people may be used to, but it doesn't sound like a freight train is going by or anything. I can just barely hear the horn go off 50 feet away from the house front door while I am inside.

 

technically your supposed to have a working horn, so instead of fixing mine i figured i might as well upgrade. So i robbed these ones of a 1957 white diesel. They are pitted somethin feirce though. any idea on how to fix that? If i can get em cleaned up decent ill mount em on top of the truck, otherwise theyll be under the hood.

 

When I built my setup I was supposed to be working on another project.

I used a 5 or 10 gallon portable air tank with a long air hose that I had found on the side of the road. The tank sat under the tool box and the hose ran under the truck, up the inner fender on the passenger side, and then down to the bumper where the horn was mounted.

The hose screwed into a brass T that split off to two horns. Also, before the T was a little air solnoid that I had pulled from some medical equipment. This was connected to the stock horn button.

Fill the tank, turn the valve on the tank and away ya go. Works great when ya wanna scare the crap out of people.

 

Ya want it under the hood, trust me it is a lot more fun when people can't see it.
cheap horn setup using junk yard parts.
1 tank off a semi mounted on the frame out of site.
1 air horn and air valve off a semi.
1 air compressor off a cadillac.
You can usually scrounge the air line off the truck too and the main tank will have a check valve too, you can also air up a tire with this.

 

sounds good star. Now if the strait pipe dont **** em off im sure the horns will LOL

 

When I did mine it was buit with parts that I had been given. Cant beat free.

 

mhm. I cant wait for the first dippy that cuts me off lol

 

I have twin trumpets from a duece and a half military truck under the hood of my 87 Suzuki Samuri. The most expensive part was the electric solinoid from Napa, close to $38. It's powered off my on-board air system 6 gallon tank @ 160psi max/ 125psi min. Talk about loud, and the reaction from people almost scares me. It's almost too loud, maybe not.

 

Oh this sounds like fun and I already have 2 semi's here we are parting out, both have horns!

question 1 - were is the tank on the semi?
question 2 - why the Cadillac compressor and how does it hook up?

 

tank is probly under the cab somewheres

 

It would probably be easier to pull the compressor from an early 90's lincoln. Like the cadi, they both had air ride systems.

 

These are my horns. Its a Nathan Airchime K3 train horn and thats the tank right behind them @ 200 psi.



Its loud enought to make someone ***** themselves while driving down the freeway!

 

It the same prettymuch as the lincoln. I just had a junk caddy they are plentiful and cheap and 12 volt and last pretty good. The semi tank some are about 2 foot long up to about 4 foot and only about as big around as the frame is tall so they mount real handy.

It is actually more fun to just get the siren off a fire truck, but more expensive sometimes. lol

 

i know a guy who has a little vw sicorro with a really nice set of air horns with a small compresser too and they sound just like a train... only problem is the cars so small they had to be monted on the inside... great way to scar some riders