Thar she blows!!

[Sigrún]

Finally got tired on distracted drivers trying to kill me and did something about it.

Say hello to my new best buddy Bad Boy from Wolo. You'll hear when he says "hello" back  





Sits reasonably well on the original roadrunner ( meep meep ) bracket methinks

Relay is tucked away hidden behind the plastic neck cover





So hopefully this bad boy will keep me a bit longer in the biking business amongst the godawful Metromess drivers. No mas Señora, no mas.  

And yes, I do realize that the bike is pretty badly in need for a little spit & shine......

[Chrisj CMA]

That horn may not last long with the air scoops open to the wind as you ride....just sayin.  Many have put it here and mine has  been perfect for a few years now.  I did have to make a mount from some aluminum angle type bar material

[Sigrún]

That horn may not last long with the air scoops open to the wind as you ride....just sayin.  Many have put it here and mine has  been perfect for a few years now.  I did have to make a mount from some aluminum angle type bar material

Crud. I  was kinda hoping to have the maximum deter effect to have the horn scoops pointed forward, where lane changers usually are. So you're saying the air entering the scoops will damage the diaphragms ( or whatever the innards are ) eventually?

The installation you have seems nice and tucked out of the way, just a little......sideways 

Thanks for the tip nevertheless

[BonS]

In the long distant past I pushed screen or plastic dish scrubber material to stop bugs from gunking up the internals of air horns. Worked for me and still let the sound out. There is a drain hole in these horns for just water.

[Farther]

Mounted on the side of the bike it looks like the soundwaves will reach your gonads first.

[Dozer]

Good luck with the horn. Its loud okay but mine didnt last but 6 months. It occupied one of the OEM horn positions on my Road Star.

I ended up going to OReillys auto parts and replaced it with a pair of really loud after market car horns....I no longer needed the relay either. When it failed, the compressor still worked but I couldnt get any sound from the horn. Maybe I didnt use it enough! FWIW

[Sigrún]

In the long distant past I pushed screen or plastic dish scrubber material to stop bugs from gunking up the internals of air horns. Worked for me and still let the sound out. There is a drain hole in these horns for just water.

Bug screen mesh probably would work for that too since it is intended for.....well..... bugs  
Seriously though, not a bad tip at all

Mounted on the side of the bike it looks like the soundwaves will reach your gonads first.

Don't think "the gonad effect" should  be underestimated. As a matter of fact, when I got the wiring finished on mine, my dear Mrs. asked if she could try it out. I gracefully agreed.

She actually jumped. Quite literally.  

[Sigrún]

Good luck with the horn. Its loud okay but mine didnt last but 6 months. It occupied one of the OEM horn positions on my Road Star.

I ended up going to OReillys auto parts and replaced it with a pair of really loud after market car horns....I no longer needed the relay either. When it failed, the compressor still worked but I couldnt get any sound from the horn. Maybe I didnt use it enough! FWIW

Dang Dozer, sorry to hear that.

Wonder if it would be possible to use some other kind of an air horn with that compressor if the Wolo ones  let go?

[9Ball]

Mine has been mounted right where yours is since 2006...it should hold up OK as long as the vent tube is run to a protected area.  Here's another alternative for future reference if this one goes south...

http://screaming-banshee.com/full-split-screamer-black-version-2.html

This allows you to mount the compressor portion in a safer, dry location such as behind the side cover along the frame tube.

[Sigrún]

Mine has been mounted right where yours is since 2006...it should hold up OK as long as the vent tube is run to a protected area.  Here's another alternative for future reference if this one goes south...

http://screaming-banshee.com/full-split-screamer-black-version-2.html

This allows you to mount the compressor portion in a safer, dry location such as behind the side cover along the frame tube.

Thanks JR, was actually just looking at those Banshees, based on previous postings. Guess I'll roll the dice with this one and see how long it lasts. Probably longer than the Glenlivet that I could have gotten for that $50 would have gotten me 

Now, at the risk of sounding like a total ignoramus..... there's a vent tube? 

[sandy]

I have a Stebel which is similar to the WOLO. I mounted it under the swingarm behind the clutch cover. It's been there for several years with no problems.

[9Ball]

Mine has been mounted right where yours is since 2006...it should hold up OK as long as the vent tube is run to a protected area.  Here's another alternative for future reference if this one goes south...

http://screaming-banshee.com/full-split-screamer-black-version-2.html

This allows you to mount the compressor portion in a safer, dry location such as behind the side cover along the frame tube.

Thanks JR, was actually just looking at those Banshees, based on previous postings. Guess I'll roll the dice with this one and see how long it lasts. Probably longer than the Glenlivet that I could have gotten for that $50 would have gotten me  

Now, at the risk of sounding like a total ignoramus..... there's a vent tube?  

If your Stebel is like the 3 I have, there is a nipple on the back side which allows air to flow through the horn.  This is a suction side and I recommend attaching a piece of tygon to the nipple and running it to behind the radiator above the engine block.  It only needs to be 6 to 8 inches long.

If you look closely between the spark plug boot and the chrome crash bar (directly below the rubber mount block) you might be able to see a little section of the clear tygon tubing and the black barb rings the nipple showing through the tubing...this should give you an idea where the nipple is located on the back side of the horn.




When and if my Stebel fails, I too will go with the Banshee two piece horn.

[Sigrún]

If your Stebel is like the 3 I have, there is a nipple on the back side which allows air to flow through the horn.  This is a suction side and I recommend attaching a piece of tygon to the nipple and running it to behind the radiator above the engine block.  It only needs to be 6 to 8 inches long.

If you look closely between the spark plug boot and the chrome crash bar (directly below the rubber mount block) you might be able to see a little section of the clear tygon tubing and the black barb rings the nipple showing through the tubing...this should give you an idea where the nipple is located on the back side of the horn.
When and if my Stebel fails, I too will go with the Banshee two piece horn.

Thanks again for the tip JR. I'll have a closer look on the horn for that. It's a Wolo but evidently there is very little difference in between those two.

[MarkT]

Reed type air horns can get the reeds stuck, need periodic maintenance like cleaning the reeds and "clearing the throat" of the horn frequently when you start riding for the day, so it will make noise when it's needed.  I used to spray WD40 in the horn periodically when I had a Hadley reed horn.  OTOH, diaphram horns are self-cleaning and never get "stuck". My Grover truck horn is a diaphram horn.  So is my 3-bell train horn (I never installed - was about to, when I found the Grover). Both work best with a pressure tank, with the air already compressed around 130lbs with a piston compressor and waiting to be released by a solenoid - rather than the vane-type compressor which has to make a large volume of low pressure air on the fly.  Of course horns with a tank, piston compressor and solenoid cost more and the install is more involved.  But no other loud (air) horns compare in volume or reliability - and you can use the compressor & tank for other stuff like filling tires and air suspension.  See http://www.horseapple.com/Valkyrie/Tech_Tips/Train-Horn/train-horn.html

[R J]

That horn may not last long with the air scoops open to the wind as you ride....just sayin.  Many have put it here and mine has  been perfect for a few years now.  I did have to make a mount from some aluminum angle type bar material

Crud. I  was kinda hoping to have the maximum deter effect to have the horn scoops pointed forward, where lane changers usually are. So you're saying the air entering the scoops will damage the diaphragms ( or whatever the innards are ) eventually?

The installation you have seems nice and tucked out of the way, just a little......sideways 

Thanks for the tip nevertheless

Biggest problem with it pointed FORWARD, is something called BUGS, grasshoppers, bees and the like.   They splat the innards and it almost wipes out the grunt.   I tried a piece of screen wire over mine, but it still went South.  So, I  went with a set of BigBF's Quads mounted down under by the Swing arm.   They are still loud enough to wake up the dead, and scare the sheet out of Bluehair drivers..

[da prez]

 I mounted my Wolo to the triple tree with the horn pointing to the fender. It gives more sound than when I had it pointing forwards (it seems) , and it will wake up most brain dead drivers!
                                        da prez