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Badpuppy · 11-09-2018, 04:31 PM

The alternator should provide enough power to blow your horn with lots of lights on; I suspect lack of power to the horn is from dirty horn button contact. You're correct to assume that a horn relay would probably solve that problem.

The vendors all sell a small relay that fits inside the horn cover, easy to install. Only thing I'd recommend is to get rid of the grounding clip that comes with it and extend the ground wire through the conduit to the front hood latch screw. Solder a #10 ring lug to the wire end and attach under the nut, with a star washer to cut through the frame paint.

I did the same for better headlight grounding; strip 1" from the end, tin with solder and attach it to the end of the headlight conduits with stainless hose clamps. Eliminates a lot of rusty connections in the return paths.

11-09-2018, 04:31 PM	#3
Badpuppy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Guthrie, OK Posts: 1,144	Re: The Wrong Path Taken The alternator should provide enough power to blow your horn with lots of lights on; I suspect lack of power to the horn is from dirty horn button contact. You're correct to assume that a horn relay would probably solve that problem. The vendors all sell a small relay that fits inside the horn cover, easy to install. Only thing I'd recommend is to get rid of the grounding clip that comes with it and extend the ground wire through the conduit to the front hood latch screw. Solder a #10 ring lug to the wire end and attach under the nut, with a star washer to cut through the frame paint. I did the same for better headlight grounding; strip 1" from the end, tin with solder and attach it to the end of the headlight conduits with stainless hose clamps. Eliminates a lot of rusty connections in the return paths.