where do you guys find room for your air horns?

[CFowler]

hi i would like some help from you folks with air horns mounted any place other than your roof top. i have a pair of 24" horns to mount but are lost for the right place ,short box makes it worst. any body know of one? how about the air tank? thanks carl

 

[Glen Pratt]

Carl, I have mine mounted behind the front bumper. I used a piece of angle aluminum for a bracket, and a piece of diamond plate aluminum to mount the horns. I have the compressor mounted under the hood on the right fender well. The air tank, I mounted under the cab behind the passenger side fender well. -Glen

 

[rrl989]

I put my 2nd set behind / within the front bumper, worked out well. 1st set was under the truck, don't do it, road salt totally destroyed them.



Hi Glen, we met one day at your house, with 6shotz after we killed his dowel pin.



Ron

 

[dresslered]

Click my "Grover" link. The compressor and storage tank fit under the OEM bumper while the horns fit on the back of the crossmember. This keeps the air lines short and sweet.

 

[Mactruck]

I tried something a little different.



Mounted the Tank between the front passenger headlight and the pass. battery. Compressor by the air filter and the horns on my AFE.



Kind of like this. (Outdated pic. I now have an AFE. This utilizes a Jannetty Heat Shield w/ the Smaller BHAF)

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[Glen Pratt]

Hey Ron, How's everything. Damn that had to be almost two years ago. Hope all is well. -Glen

 

[Turbo Thom]

I installed mine on a frame mounted on the bed used for the wind deflector It's mounted on the front of the bed, extented out over the roof of the truck. In the weather but at least up top.



. . Preston. .

 

[mikel]

My single grover is installed behind the front bumper. I took the bumper off and mounted it to the crossmember and then put the bumper back on. It's hidden, but right up front where it needs to be.



Mike

 

[Cummins Pilot]

OK, who makes the loudest air horns? I'd actually like a set of a train engine but there bery spendy.

 

[bighammer]

I think the Grovers and Hadleys are similarly loud. (I have a dB meter, I should compare them) but they have a different sort of tone. The Grovers sound deeper and more truck-like, but the Hadleys sound more shrill and penetrating.



Any sharp computer types that could tell me how to make a recording of each with my computer and post it on here? (Be a lot easier than having people call me and have me blast 'em over the phone )

 

[jtisdale]

Mine arent 24", but here is where I put them. They are off an old semi. My Dad got them for me years ago. They are pretty much camouflaged by the front lower valence. Man are they loud!!

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[CFowler]

thanks to all of you guys,but im still trying to get the perfect place, them dam things are kinda long,but sound good . please any body else have the solution?

 

[knewman]

i used to have actually train horns on one of my 18 wheelers. somebody put this site in here while ago sound very close

http://www.lonewolfwhistle.com/air-truckers-train-horn.html

 

[RHARVEY]

I made a bracket that I bolted to the inside of the frame. . on the drivers side. The front of the horns are behind the transmission crossmember. The tank is on the passenger side between the wheel well and the front of the bed on the outside of the frame. I have a Hadley compressor on the fender on the driver side and all of the plumbing is 3/8" air brake line. .



Rick

 

[John - K5AWO]

And this site has train horn sounds



http://www.railserve.com/index.html

 

[Thomas]

Grover horns on rear surface of front frame crossmember for three plus years. There not quite twenty-four inches long though.

 

[RHARVEY]

The Grovers that I have are 24" long with 6" bells.



Rick

 

[mikel]

I only have one of those 24" grovers, and like I said earlier it's on the front of the front crossmember behind the bumper. I had to take the bumper off to get it there. If I had a 2nd one, I'd put it behind the front crossmember pointing exactly opposite the first one. I have installed my horn on 4 different trucks so far and it will fit behind or in front of the crossmember so you'd end up with one in front and one behind the crossmember. Both would be pointing sideways, one to the driver's side and one to the paggenger's side.



Hmmm, I've been thinking about getting some train horns, I wonder if a 2nd grover would be enough to satisfy the urge to make more noise...



Good luck,

Mike

 

[CFowler]

dont know if ill ever find the time to remove the front bumperbut this looks like the way im going to have to do it. i have 4 horns,really wanted all four on there. now for that big old air tank...

 

[mikel]

You can get a pretty big tank mounted to the frame in front of the passenger side rear wheel. I can get you some pictures of the brackets and the tank if you want.



I just got a different truck about 3 weeks ago and have all the pieces of my air system sitting on the garage floor right now.



I'd say my tank is about 24" X 10" or so, just for reference.