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I Installed new Freeway blasters on my 07 RSV, but they are not operating at full volume. This morning I'm going out to the garage to test for ground resistance. and the voltage supply to the horn's. My question is, Where are the ground points on my bike? I have been through the factory manual and can not find that info. Thanks guy's Ken
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I am thinking about buying some Rivco Air horns for my 2007 RSV. Does anyone know if there is a sound clip on line that will let me know what they sound like. Are there other options that might be better. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks JR
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Hi, Where do folks customarily mount the compressor for an air horn system on these bikes? I got tired of wimpy electromechanicals and bought some WOLO air horns but the compressor is tough to fit in. Where's best? Thanks all and best regards, Brian H. -
I just installed the big horn from howards horns on my 06 RSV and it is VERY loud and great quality. I have never heard the stebel and others but my son has and says this is much louder. They actually don't give a decibel range for the horn. I used the hardware that came with the horn but they did not supply any wire...it is expensive at 150 bucks but worth the attention it attracts when I need it. After taking the stock horn off the right side, I used one of the existing holes from the stock horn mount, and used the black bracket supplied with the horn...I did not want to see any hint of a compressor so I drilled a 1/2" hole out the front of my saddlebag and mounted the compressor in the bag...a nice clean look, just a nice steel braided hose and horn showing to the rest of the world. They sent me wiring instructions for a Harley of course and wiring it that way to the relay did not work...so I found a thread on here about wiring another brand horn and it worked...just make sure the brown wire from the stock horn goes to post 86 on the relay, and the pink wire from the stock horn goes to post 85 and it will work using the existing horn button. They have several horns available but I wanted to make the most noise I can so went with the big horn.
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I need the electrical wizards help! I have two issues... First, my turn signals only work intermittently. (Yeah I know they are supposed to go on and off....that is not what I me:no-no-no:...I have been around here long enough to know a comment was coming) Hitting bumps seems to make a difference. Any thoughts or ideas where to look? Or tests to run? Second, my horn has quit. The previous owner took off the stock horns and it now has auto horns. I have replaced the horn rely and it work for like a day. Any thought on what could be the problem? I have take apart the handlebar switch and cleaned connections, etc....didn't help. Looking for some ideas and options!, which always are in great supply around here! -
Like many here, I wanted more than the stock horns could give me. I decided to install the Stebel. I didn't really like mounting it where the stock horn is. I decided to mount it on the left rear, under the trunk and behind the HD lights. I made a bracket out of some aluminum bar I had and used a 'P' clamp and plastic ties. Not a lot of clearance for the bag lid and fender, but enough. That was the main reason for some plastic ties, to hold it away from things. Definitely louder than stock, but not as loud as I was expecting. While I felt better about being able to make some noise, I still didn't have what I wanted. I was thinking about another Stebel, but I saw some 132 db horns at AutoZone and I decided to give them a try. What I bought were Blazer Horn's Highway Blaster I did some searching but couldn't find much on them. A search on 'Highway Blaster Horn' turned up some Freeway Blaster horns that look just like these and in the same db range (125 - 130) and price ($15-$20 each). I bought a high tone and low tone. They are mirror images so I could mount one on each side of the bike and still have the 'bell' as far forward and out of the way as possible. I mounted them behind the lower fairings. The bell sits on the front crash bar. The included bracket goes from a stud and nut in the center of the horn to the lower bolt that holds the air filter housing. The horn bracket is thin and I placed it between the housing and the housing bracket. I soldered two wires into the wire from my relay to the Stebel and ran them under the tank. You can just see the relay in a shot of the right side. It sits on top of the fluid reservoir under the right side cover. Two wires (white in the pic) are spliced into the stock horn below and activate the relay when the horn button is pressed. One red wire is fused to the battery and the other side of the relay goes to the three horns I installed. I used a plastic tie to hold the relay in place. Now when I hit the horn button, I have 5 horns going off (2 stock, Stebel, 2 Blasters). First time I tapped the button, I flinched. By flinch, I mean I closed my eyes, shook my head, and took a step back. Tapped it again and all the grandkids came out to see what was going on. Even though they knew it was coming, they flinched every time I tapped the button. My wife finally made me stop. She was afraid the neighbors would get mad. I'm loud enough now.
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OK I'm not an electrician. I can't read them lil squidly lines on blueprints. I would like to know how to hook up my new to me horns. I have a 30 amp relay I got at Autozone . Iwant to hook up thru my existing horn wiring if possible using it to fire the relay and the relay to fire both new horns. The rely has numbers on it that I know correspond to which wires I hook up. Am I making sense? The horns are stebal electric with 2 connectors so I'm assuming they are not self grounding. In other words what wire goes to 86 what to 85 and ect.? Sorry to be so dense.
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Fiamm Horn Installation You folks know very well that there are usually a number of ways to do a job. I'm not saying that this is the absolute best way of installing these horns but it's the way I did it. If you have suggestions on how to improve on this, please start a discussion in the General Tech area and maybe we can all learn something. That being said...this is my story. Though this installation was done on my second generation Venture, I'm sure that much of the wiring and etc. would apply to the first generation or the Royal Star also. I ordered the chrome horns with the intention of mounting them somewhere on the side of the bike. I just couldn't find a place that I like though so finally decided to just mount them inside the faring. Obviously I would probably not have bought chrome had I known that I was going to just hide them anyway. The first thing you have to do of course is split the faring. If you have never done that, I posted a separate write-up on my procedure for doing it under the Second Generation topic of the Technical Library. Once you are inside the faring, the rest is fairly straight forward. The particular horns came with some chrome straps about 3" long with a hole in each end. As you can see, I utilized holes that were already in the part of the faring frame that holds the speedometer unit. There are two holes there that are not being used. There are rubber pads in the holes but I just popped them out and put them away in case I ever need them. This is a steel frame and is very solid. These horns are actually self grounding through the mounting lug but the bracket that I bolted them to is painted so it was a matter of scraping off the paint or using a ground wire. I decided to use the ground wire. Why create a place for corrosion to start by scraping off the paint. I simply used a piece of #14 wire with ring terminals on both ends. Just under the audio unit on the right side is a ground wire and I just connected two new ones to the same screw...one going to each horn. Now...the horns came with a relay and if you are installing heavy duty horns, you certainly want to use a relay. As you can see, I simply removed one of the screw that holds the audio unit and bolted the relay right to it. Very simple. http://www.venturerider.org/horns/relay.jpg The white wire that you see going to the relay is the main power for the horns. The instructions say to simply run a wire to the battery through an inline fuse that you'll have to purchase elsewhere. There is nothing wrong with that but I didn't have an inline fuse and didn't want to go to the store. After thinking about it, I decided to power it off the same circuit that powers the 12V receptacle. Now if you use the receptacle for heated clothing or other heavy duty items, you will want to do as the instructions say and run a wire to the battery. In my case though, I only use the receptacle to power my IPOD MP3 player and it pulls hardly any amps at all. So...I simple ran the white wire from the relay across to the wire going to the receptacle and spliced it in. If you take this route, you WILL want to go to a bigger fuse on that circuit. The receptacle is fused for 5 amps and they horns call for 10. This fuse is located inside the lower left cowling as indicated by the next picture. http://www.venturerider.org/horns/fuses.jpg They are marked inside the lid of the fuse box so simply remove the 5 amp fuse and replace with a 10 amp. So... you now have main power to the relay and the horn is grounded. All you need to do now is connect the relay to your horn button. So...where the heck do you do that? Well....If you look carefully at the next picture, you will see where I tied into a pink wire. This is the wire that comes off the horn button. It did go into the plastic connector you see just below it but I simply pulled it out of the connector, cut the end off and crimpled it to my wire going to the relay. So now the horn button can trigger the relay and all is great. One note. I had intended to leave the original horns connected as well as the new ones. Due to the circuit feeding back through the original horns though, I found that the new horns would honk when the key was in the accessory position. Rather than mess with isolating them and due to the fact that you can't hear them anyway, I just decided to heck with them. Here are pictures of the left and right sides. http://www.venturerider.org/horns/left.jpg http://www.venturerider.org/horns/right.jpg My opinion of these horns? They are MUCH better than the stock horns. I can assure you that you will be heard when you set these things off. Even still though...I expected a bit more. I mean...if you run up behind somebody and press the horn button...they are going to JUMP...but..they probably won't wet their pants. I wanted them to wet their pants....maybe I expected too much. Anyway, if I had to rate them between 1 and 10...I would probably give them about a 7. If I had it to do over again...I would do so...but if I was putting them in the faring, I would just go with the round plain type...not these chrome models. Don Nelson
