The Fine Print

The Fine Print

I am an odd sort of human, and I WILL do everything that follows.

I WILL ramble. I WILL lose topic. I WILL create metaphor chains that lead to no where, and never return to the original topic creating closure. I WILL say things that make absolutely no sense.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Mounting the Horns

From what I have read, the stock horns only draw roughly 1 amp, whereas these Candlepower horns will be drawing 4 amps per horn.  The general consensus is that stock wiring will not handle this, and many people have evidently fried their stock wiring by going the lazy route and not using the relay.  So I am definitely going to be wiring in that relay.  Unfortunately I am extremely tight on money at the moment and the supplies for wiring the relay will have to wait till my wallet is a little thicker.  But at least I can mount them!

First I had to drill a hole in the mounting brackets(if you can call them that) that came with the new horn.  There is an extra hole that is needed for a small stabilizing tab on the bike.

Then to just bolt on the horn...
 
And there it is, horns mounted.  By far this will probably be the easy part.  In this picture you can see how the horns would look much better if I painted the front side with a chrome color paint.  All that black plastic is lookin kinda lame.  I am by far not a fan of chroming everything on a bike, but this large cluster of black plastic has got to go.

Sidenote... you can also see the turn signal stems have been replaced in this last photo.  

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