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Lfino

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #300 on: July 02, 2022, 08:21:47 PM »
Pulled the high and low horns off today. Put power to them. Nothing. Ran the screw in and out. Nothing. Tapped them with a hammer. Nothing.
Filled them with PB Blaster. Letting them soak overnight.

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #301 on: July 02, 2022, 08:56:17 PM »
Roped in the rear glass with help from my son!

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #302 on: July 02, 2022, 10:18:33 PM »
Roped in the rear glass with help from my son!

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Looking good.  Nice to have a helping hand.
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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #303 on: July 03, 2022, 11:47:07 AM »
Isn’t there just a thin type of flap or something that gives the horn it’s activation?
I’m pretty sure they’re very simple inside

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #304 on: July 03, 2022, 11:55:11 PM »
Yes. The horn is pretty simple inside. Just can't get to the inside. Rivets.
Today I took the screws out that control the vibration. Filled the hole with PB.
Tomorrow I'll probably hit it with 18 volts.

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #305 on: July 04, 2022, 10:21:20 AM »
The horn, when supplied by 12V,  has a normally closed set of points that energizes an electromagnet to pull a metal diaphragm back. As soon as the diaphragm is pulled back far enough the one end of the points attached to the diaphragm loses contact. This off/on happens very quickly resulting in the diaphragm vibrating.
The screw adjusts when the points make/break.

Looking good, Jon.
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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #306 on: July 04, 2022, 10:38:01 AM »
Make sure the horn is grounded when testing it. There are several companies that can rebuild them with the original style rivets. "Hornworks" comes to mind.

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #307 on: July 04, 2022, 10:56:10 AM »
Restoration of Mustang horns by a outside service maybe the only practical way to save the exact same horn that came off your car (if you are absolutely positive it has not been replaced) . However the cost of restoration typically far exceeds what you can typically still find used working Mustang horns for. The Horn works for example https://www.carhornrestoration.com/  is 249.00 to restore your pair of cores (on sale for 219.00 for june and july). FYI given the time and materials it can take to restore a Mustang horn I don't think the costs in the example are unreasonable just that there are less expensive alternatives . At least for now.
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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #308 on: July 04, 2022, 04:52:34 PM »
Make sure the horn is grounded when testing it. There are several companies that can rebuild them with the original style rivets. "Hornworks" comes to mind.

Gary at the Horn Works did my '67 horns. He did a great job and they work perfectly.

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #309 on: July 04, 2022, 08:13:24 PM »
Thanks for the info. I'll work on it another day or two

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #310 on: July 04, 2022, 10:58:58 PM »
Went to a car show..got there early!!

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #311 on: July 05, 2022, 01:12:03 AM »
Craig. Was that mountlake terrace?

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« Reply #312 on: July 05, 2022, 02:35:44 AM »
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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #313 on: July 05, 2022, 11:01:58 PM »
Sent #906 off for new paint on Monday.  Had it bead blasted last month, did some sanding on it per the painter and then bombed canned it with primer to keep the rust off until the painter gets working on it.  Will need a new drivers side lower rocker panel and the front end has had damage years ago.  That will all be repaired along with new radiator support and torsion bar support brackets.  I'll see it after the first of the year.

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Re: What did you do to your '67 today?
« Reply #314 on: July 06, 2022, 08:56:52 AM »
Don't say the C word, but these folks have the rebuild kits available... ;D

https://www.zip-corvette.com/

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