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Triumph TR6 - horn problem

Hi everyone,
I know you gone over this in the past, but I've check the old thead, and didn't find the anwser I needed.
My 70 TR-6 horn is not working, when I press the horn I just hear a clicking sound coming from the relay. Any ideas?
Steve
spj steve

Broken?

Isn't the clicking sound of a relay problem?

What have you done so far so we can skip them.
DON KELLY

Hi Steve

I had a similar issue recently - just got it fixed last week! In my case the relay would click and if the button was held down for more than a second or two then the fuse would blow. As far as I could tell with my fairly basic multimeter and test light, the wiring was fine but something was shorting inside one of the horns - when I took off the "original" horns I found that they were mismatched and neither was an original Lucas. In taking off the ground wire connection the terminal just snapped off from one of the horns, so I just ordered a new pair from Amazon - I went with PIAA (Made in Italy) and they sound just like I expect a British car to sound (as I recall the 500/600 Hz version) but they have a load of options. They don't look exactly like Lucas horns, but I wasn't prepared to spend twice the price on Chinese made imitation Lucas items, and they look no worse than the ones I had. Besides, they are tucked away pretty well (lots of trouble with my chubby fingers!)

Link to the horns I bought (under $40 with free shipping):

http://www.amazon.com/85112-115db-500HZ-600HZ-Sports/dp/B00079V5ZI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1291080929&sr=8-2

Hope that helps.
Alistair
A Hewitt

Don,
I've clean the connection, I have power going in and out of the relay, I have power going into the horns. If I'm getting that clicking sound doesn't mean I'm getting ground? I also check the horns, they both work.
spj steve

So if you hook up power direct you get tootski's?
DON KELLY

Just because the relay clicks doesn't mean there's good contact - the points could be oxidized. Try applying voltage at the relay output - if the horns work get a new relay.
Brent B

That 's what I said
DON KELLY

TOOTSKI'S?????????????????????????

Splain Please.

Rick
Rick Crawford

What? you never had kids?
DON KELLY

Grandkids are very good at Tootskies followed by giggling...

Steve: After going through all of the suggestions in Dan Master's book (horn push to wires & grounds to relays to horns themselves I too put new horns on (sourced from Octagon Motors in BC) and presto... big Brit toots. The originals are now paperweights.

Ken
Ken Shaddock

Hi Everyone,
Replace the relay and now I get a Tootskies.
thanks for all your help.
Steve
spj steve

Tootskis can be very good at times!

So there Rick!
DON KELLY

This thread was discussed between 29/11/2010 and 06/12/2010

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