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- 1971 Mach 1 restored in the original light pewter metallic with TMI interior and custom stereo from Pacific Car Audio
Has anyone tried to repair their horns? Neither our hi or lo work so we drilled the rivets out on the lo one as we have two of those. The inside was corroded and packed with sand from the sandblasting. We dismantled it and sandblasted away some of the gunk and washed out the packed in sand. We filed the contact points and then assembled it and held it together while hooking it up to the battery. It took a little playing with how hard it was held together and started making noise. Not the right noise but in the general area. We found if we put both gaskets on one side of the diaphragm we could reassemble it and it did function. Again not really the right sound but sound. We started searching for horn rebuild kits but the only thing we found was for corvettes. Then we looked at the horn from our 72 Riviera and it is exactly the same horn other than the mounting bracket. We looked at the pictures of the corvette kit and the parts look just the same. The kit comes with the HI and LO diaphragms, the paper gaskets for two horns and the rivets. Has anyone tried this?
Here is a shot of the diaphragm, note it is stamped with LO
http://corvettespecialty.com/corvette-horn-repair-kit-1964-75
Here is a shot of the diaphragm, note it is stamped with LO
http://corvettespecialty.com/corvette-horn-repair-kit-1964-75