i had the horns in my motor compartment and they were loud as hell but i just moved them ontop on my cab and they obvousily got wet from the rain…well i just got done hooking them up and now they’re half as loud as they used to be?? is this cause they got wet?..i have the shocker kit with about a 30G air tank anywhere between 100-160psi, depending on whats in the tank at the time
and a pic just for fun!
I’ve never heard of water hurting them. I guess if they got some junk inside behind the diaphragms or something they could lose some of their function. I’m not one to give advice on tearing into the shockers so it may be best to contact Hornblasters and ask them what you should do.
Water can reek havoc on diaphragms. When it starts to corrode.(white rust). Are they the shockers? If so I would try to blow each one individually and check.
Good Luck,
John
The shockers and nathans all have stainless steel diaphragms they dont crrode… nathans exterior will though since its aluminum…
yea theyre the shockers but i only just gave it a little “toot” (i try to respect my neighbors a little) and it wasnt loud at all…but at the same time, i seen it blow water out…im going to hold it down a little longer on my way to work and see if it clears it out.
check ur link for kinks
Sounds like they might have water in the lines, or kinked lines like eshan said.
Aluminium is ridiculously resistant to corrosion. It does corrode inevitably, but so do most grades of stainless eventually.
Huh?
Google Search: aluminium corrosion
The outer layer (nanometers) corrodes into aluminium oxide which protects the rest of it. Everything corrodes, but this protective film makes it as a whole pretty resistant to corrosion.
I understand what you are saying. But the internals of the Nathan horns are aluminum or sand casted aluminum. Stainless steel diaphragms. The aluminum will corrode. And will make a diaphragm stick. I also understand your point on the shockers too./ I have had a few Nathan/Airchimes that had bad internals do to corrosion. Also I have seen alot of copper diaphragms also.
Sounds to me like a kinked line also… take a vid so we can hear it
its good now…it was what i figured. i held it down for a few on my way to work and it cleard out the horns…im thinkin some water built up in the horn since its been rainin pretty dam good here in WA right now…
but that was also one reason i moved the horns to ontop my cab…when they were in the motor compartment, the lines where getting to warm and softening up and kinking. now that there on top, my lines run right above my head and they have no kinks at all
thanks everybody for the input though
Glad to hear you got you horn working.
Probably wouldn’t look as good, but you could mount them backwards. That way less water would get forced into the horns as you drive. You could also try to fab up some shields for the opening of the horns to deflect the water, especially as you drive.
yea ive thought about that but i want them pointing forward. but also if i try to cut back on driving that truck when its raining, itll help. but i was also going to check out a local truck shop and see if they had some covers that happend to fit on mine.