'Low' horn not sounding

Roger Harmon

My new Hornet only toots the high tone horn. The low one gets power, and has a good ground, but will not sound. Any suggestions? Has anyone fixed one like this?

R/ Roger.

Roger Harmon

Here it is.

RL Chilton

Roger-

That's not a horn, that's a car, '54 at that.

Chris Smith

Some would say you want to TOOT YOUR OWN HORN. Regardless, you can try removing the dome cover and clean the contacts inside.

Uncle Josh

And then you'll have to adjust the screw that determines how tight the contacts are until it toots properly.

There once was a tutor who tooted,
And tutored two tooters to toot,
Said the two to the tutor,
Is it easier to toot,
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?

[Deleted User]

I had just last week the very same issue with the low tone horn?????? I took it all apart and fiddled with it ,cleaning, adjusting, to no avail. I just replaced it with one off of a parts car even though they are differant make horns. have too many other issues to deal with at the moment and will re-address this later as they both toot know. Very nice sound be the Hudson horn!

Club Coupe

I had the same problem a while back and here's what I did. I started with the contacts under the horn button by spraying them liberally with contact cleaner. Then I did the same thing to the hot wire going to the horn itself, after taking the wire off of the horn. Finally I sprayed the contacts inside the horn. On about the third or fourth tap on the horn ring it worked. I used the straight contact cleaner (no lubrication) from Radio Shack.

Roger Harmon

I'll give messing with the contacts inside the horn a try; does the dome cover just pry/pop off?

Club Coupe

Roger:
Twist it a tad bit counter clockwise and it should come right off. Hope the cleaner does the job for you.

Roger Harmon

It did! I backed off the adjustment and emery'd the contact point, the had a helping hand toot while I adjusted the sound. Perfect!

Thanks to all! R/ Roger.

hoggyrubber

glad to read this, none of mine work- so i'm going to give this a try.

hoggyrubber

i'm glad you guys brought this up. i took mine apart today and cleaned the points and adjusted it and it works! thanks again.

Roger Harmon

Yeay!