A couple weeks ago my compressor ran all night, probably overheated, etc and stopped working. I have had my kit for about 3-4 years with no issues until now.
So far I have done the following:
1 - Replaced air compressor with 275c
2 - Replaced 25amp inline fuse to the battery which was blown, compresssor now works
3 - unmounted and drained tank, my 2 gallon tank was only getting about 85psi, it probably had 1 gallon of water in it. Now it fills all the way up to 150psi
4 - Replaced pressure switch, was not sure if it was bad, so replaced it. Brand new.
5 - cleaned and dried out the air line that goes from the tank to the horn
I have a button mounted in my cab so when my truck is on I can press it and the horn honks.
At this point when I press the button and the tank is pressurized, I get no honking but can hear something clicking which according to the guys at hornblasters is the solenoid for the horn but I’m not sure.
Does anyone have any ideas? What could be the problem of why the air is not getting to the horn?
if the solonoid is clicking and no noise is coming out that means that there is no pressure in the air line going to the horns, its losing it somewhere.make sure you have no melted air line and have someone hit the horn while your out looking at it to see where the air is going…
if the tank says u got pressure, its obvious all your hoses are hooked up… its gotta be kinked somewhere which is why u press the solenoid button and hear a click bu no air gets thru
OK thanks guys. The air line is clean and not kinked. I will check tomorrow to make sure that it gets pressurized. Today when I cleaned my tank I unscrewed everything out of each port of the tank, drain plug, PSI gauge, pressure switch and the other port the compressor plugs into. They were all cleaned very good.
Maybe something is stuck in the horn? I have a real air compressor for air tools so I can power that up and try to honk the horn also
take the line off the valve thats coming from the tank… if it starts blasting air thru, u know the prob lies in the valve, if not trace it back to the tank…
Got it honking again!! Thanks for the help. Took the air line off at the solonoid. It was pressurized. Took my other air compressor used for air tools and blew out the solonoid and whatnot.
