My wife using my horns ....

We’ve had a milder winter in Boise this year, so my wife has been driving my truck more. She won’t drive it very often when the weather is bad because it’s a manual and obviously drives different than her automatic.

Anyway, she found a new auto detailer place in town and decided that since we’ve had a patch of good weather she’d have them detail my truck and give it a wax job. She pulls up and makes sure to dump the tank before handing off the keys to them, which of course raises eyebrows. One of the guys asks if she just blew a tire, so she tells them about the horns.

“Horns? What kinds of horns?”, he asks, and she tells them about the train horns and where the manual valve is, and that they are really loud so to be safe she dumped the tank. Intrigued, they ask for a demonstration to which my wife agrees but only after they’re done because they are very loud.

This is where things go to hell in a hand basket …

So one of the guys says, “Oh they can’t be that loud.”, which is when she hits the switch to air back up. There is some light banter between the guys while she’s airing the tank up, bringing it to around 140psi when she kills the compressor and nails the horns.

Like kids locked in a candy store, they go wild … who installed it, what is it, wait … it’s really a train horn?

Looks like we might have a couple more folks from Idaho with orders for horns now.

-Kris

Good for your wife helping to spread the word…lol

The funniest part is - “Did you blow a tire?”
“Ummmmmm, do you see a flat tire?” - LOL

Is it just a 1/4" solenoid valve for the drain? I’m doing one too & was curious how loud it is.

I’m using the electric valve kit that HB sells as my dump valve, which works great.

IIRC, it’s 1/2 NPT and I just ground one wire close to the tank and run the other to a push button in the cab.

-Kris

Ahh I forgot they have a 1/2" kit.

My drain port is 1/4" and I just bought a bunch of 1/4" valves for a couple projects.

Yeah, that 1/2 valve makes a lot of noise and works great for scaring the jeebus out of people at stop lights.

Not that I would know anything at all about this …

Allegedly-

Ha ha ha ha nice one MO.

My wife has been using my car lately as it has warm heated velour seats instead of her cold leather Audi seats.

She too keeps returning with stories of “This guy jumped this way This guy jumped that high - This Woman screamed” She loves my Horn and simply cant get enough of it :wink: lol, yet the funniest thing is she moans at me when I blast my Horns with her sitting next to me, she jumps everytime!!!:smiley: