One of my horns was not working so I took it apart, cleaned it, readjusted
it, put it back together and it works fine now. These rarely go bad on a
permanent basis. The usual mode of failure is corrosion on the contacts
inside the horn (especially under the adjusting screw). This is easily
cleaned off. The whole job took about 10 minutes. The electro-magnets
inside are wound with fairly heavy gauge wire and burn-out should be a
rarity.
You can test a horn for continuity with an Ohm meter. Mine showed a
relatively high resistance until I cleaned all the internal contacts.
Reid
'79 Spitfire (original owner)
-----Original Message-----
From: SMatson802@aol.com [mailto:SMatson802@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 6:45 AM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Testing horn.
The horn on my '71 spit stopped working a couple of months ago and I need to
get it tooting for state inspection. The two horns now installed on the car
are pretty old and nasty looking. I have two horns that are much nicer that
came as spares.
Is there an easy way to make sure the newer horns work before I install
them?
I would hate to confuse the matter by installing two bad horns AND have
another problem to diagnose as well.
Thanks
Steve M
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