Water in train horn after car wash?

Main Train Horns
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I think I know the answer to this question, but I wanted to double check myself.

I just got a car wash a few hours ago and I got the “under carriage” wash. I just tried my horns a few moments ago and my K3 sounds out of tune… I’m guessing it’s because of the wash. All I can do now is wait for it to dry and it should be okay? Should I drain the tank a few times through the horn and see if that helps fix it quicker?

It sounds like one of the bells is a little out of tune… I hope I don’t have to replace anything… Then again, it is a TRAIN HORN, so maybe the internals are stronger than that :)? Haha.

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Water will not hurt them in any way. Don’t forget they sit on top of trains!

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just hold them down and dump your tanks lol that should be enough to just blow all the stuff out of them

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They are bolted to my frame haha.

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hahah sorry i ment hold your valve wide open so it dumps all your air out threw the horn and cleans them out.

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yea same with mine when its pouring it sounds like a manual valve at first haha

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The weird thing about that for me is… When it rains and I mean like RAINS, I have no problem… It’s just this one time when I decided to get an “under carriage” wash on my Dakota… :/. Tonight I drained the tank for 6 seconds… I still wasn’t loosing sound so I stopped… I have a 10 gallon… I thought I was going to be empty by then haha. Guess not. I kinda didn’t wanna wake up everyone in the neighborhood with a blast longer than that.