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Hey,

With increasing annoyance of people knowing how to merge i am thinking of putting a real truck style air horn on the zook under the bonnet.

Wondering what air supply and configurations is there to run one of the long air horns. Also how much and I looking at for buying one. I am guessing i need a horn/purge valve/solinoid setup and button.

I am aiming to run a endless air setup with the orig zook aircond pump and a small tank.

Thanks

Nic

FEED IT FROM YOUR AIR TANK USEING AN AIR LOCKER SOLINOID HOOKED TO PUSH BUTTON, YOU MAY NEED A PRESSURE REG

a set of decent brand new air horns tank and a feww othere things from the truck shop down here is $179 odd bucks minus compresser and tank pressure cut off reg

im looking into it myself my old man has just fitted a set to his 80 seires but is in the process of going biger
horns

my old man got his horns 50 bucks from a wreakers and his tank 50 bucks same place, but what cost the most was all the valves and so on
he already had the endless air in

all u need is a $60 12v air solenoid and some plastic air line and the fittings to suit, all from coventries

I want a train horn... perfect to wake up Cookie 100mtrs away...

I had one on my Lux (and am going to put it back on one day).
I had it setup with a manual push button solinoid valve with the airlines running up into the dash.

What I am going to do when I set it up this time is use a 12 volt airlocker style solinoid. This will run to a 2 way switch that will tap into the horn wiring from the steering wheel, Switch up for standard horn - Switch down for air horn .

bogged wrote:I want a train horn... perfect to wake up ***** 100mtrs away...

Here u go:

http://www.wolo-mfg.com/truck.htm

Wolo has designed the Orient Express Horn to be smaller in size so to fit into engine compartment's that have less open space. Four (4) brass triple chrome plated trumpets produce the powerful train horn sound. The Orient Express will provide the driver with comfort of knowing that he/she will be heard! Requires an on-board air system with a minimum of 3-gallon storage tank, (recommended Wolo on-board air system is Model 840). Built with a heavy-duty 12-volt electric solenoid. The Orient Express comes with mounting hardware and 10 feet of ¼" nylon high-pressure hose.

my mate has 2 XPT train horns under his hilux..

I have a set of yankee truck air horns with 2lt air tank that holds 200psi, works a treat... sell them for round the rrp of $170ish you can just ump them up at the servo till you get your compressor setup.

I have them on my F150, under the left guard, to scare cyclists

I bought the pair of horns, air switch and tank from the wreckers for $100, then ran a shrader valve to the tank, so I can fill it at the servo. The line goes into the cabin to the dash, then to the horns.

Servo's only let you fill to about 65psi, and that lasts forever with the tank I have (maybe 10l?).

thunder wrote:my mate has 2 XPT train horns under his hilux..

I'lll take a pr

I bought mine brand new from patrolden for $40.
pm him for the details of where he got them.
They are very loud.

im ordering my horns from hornblasters this month! i cant wait to get them haha will have some funny times

Ezookiel wrote:I bought mine brand new from patrolden for $40.

got photos of em?? what sort?

I got a truck air horn form Wanless truck wreckers for about $30 with the solenoid, hooked it up to the ARB compressor but the solenoid doesn't like working when the compressor cycles off at 110psi. Works when pressure is dropped to about 85psi so I'm not sure if they have a specific operating pressure range or not. Haven't been able to get a straight answer yet.

Put a regulator in circuit

bogged wrote:

Ezookiel wrote:I bought mine brand new from patrolden for $40.

got photos of em?? what sort?

The box has no brand on it, just sk-650



This photo is the one patrolden put up of his. It's the same as the one I bought from him.
I'll see if I can find the video link he had of it being used.
He mounted his under his bonnet, but I've yet to find somewhere to fit the bugger. My stupid cyclopac airfilter prevents mine going where he put his. They're damned big.

http://downunder4x4.net/video/airhorn.wmv

That's the link to his video of the horn in use.
Apparently, as it was filmed from in cabin, the volume is much louder than the vid does justice to.

Hope he doesn't mind me stealing his links for you. But since it's to help out a person looking for the same stuff as him, then I don't think he'll mind.

watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OJo_FTjysU
bwahahahaha i want air horns bad now

Liked the train sounding horns and can understand to a degree why ppl are going to that extent, which how sound proof new cars are. They can't even hear police sirens when they have the windows up and the radios on.

But alas I only have 2 sets of standard tripple air horns under the bonnet, one set each side of the engine bay.

here's how i mounted mine under the bonnet.



It can be heard a kilometre away I run it at no more than 100 psi... thats what my compressor shuts off at. The solonoid for the horn is built in, and it runs on 12 or 24 volts...... i love it

btw... the tank is an old fire extinguiser

Patrolden wrote:here's how i mounted mine under the bonnet.



It can be heard a kilometre away I run it at no more than 100 psi... thats what my compressor shuts off at. The solonoid for the horn is built in, and it runs on 12 or 24 volts...... i love it

btw... the tank is an old fire extinguiser

so can ya get any more??

GQ4.8coilcab wrote:watch this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OJo_FTjysU
bwahahahaha i want air horns bad now

lmf brains out!

Look at those gangsters run..... awwwwwwwwwwww

bogged wrote:so can ya get any more??

You could probably buy them from the guy i got them off on ebay.... the place is in Forbes NSW.... it's called Roylance, it's a trucking company i think..... the guy you need to speak to is Marcus. I think i paid $45 plus postage..... was about $10 i think.

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Roylance's
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AUTOMOTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL CENTRE
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* Cnr Jones St & Newell Hwy Forbes 2871
* (02) 6852 2411
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* Fax
* (02) 6852 4215

Patrolden wrote:#
Roylance's
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AUTOMOTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL CENTRE
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* Cnr Jones St & Newell Hwy Forbes 2871
* (02) 6852 2411
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* Fax
* (02) 6852 4215

kewl

I like the sound of the horn in that hornblaster vid sound bloody sweet and nice and loud

By the way anyone in AUS making air horn kits or anything like that? becuase i would be keen as..

Rick.

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Kingy

Mulisha wrote:I like the sound of the horn in that hornblaster vid sound bloody sweet and nice and loud

By the way anyone in AUS making air horn kits or anything like that? becuase i would be keen as..

Rick.

autobarn have them. supercheap, bursons, repco etc..