rainagain

Time to install my new horns after all they are for: And I know they’re going to be good as it says so on the box I cut down the existing connectors I’d removed off the original horns, used a blob of silicone to secure them to the horns and then soldered the connections. I then spread silicone around the exposed metal to help prevent corrosion. They work great and it means I didn’t butcher the existing car wiring. The cable on the right isn’t actually under tension it’s just the shroud that makes it look like it.

This sounds like a good solution but if you don’t have the skills/kit for Anduino you could knock up a piece of bread board with more common relay(s) and plug this in with fly leads with male spades. Does anyone have a pin out for the original relay?

being honest I did see the air horn kits for a wee bit more than the horns I ordered and I was really really tempted. If I had more time I would have ordered them and taken the time to install the kit.

Next onto the power steering leak, this is coming from the cooler at the front. I bought a petrol cooler as a diesel one is ££££. I’ve seen someone bending it to fit as they’re pretty similar, however on closer inspection the unions it connects to are solid lumps of rust deep in the inner wing and trying to undo them would just result in a world of pain. As this is the low pressure side my solution is to cut out the rotten section and fit in a nice new piece of oil safe hose I got from a local hydraulic supplier. As there’s always howevers with this car I found the leak is coming from right next to the union circled below I want to make these cuts into nice none rusted piping The problem is the pipe on the left has an o/d of 10mm and the one on the right has an o/d of 12mm. My repair hose has an internal diameter of 12mm I’m hoping I can make up the difference by shrinking some heat shrink onto the smaller pipe and again hoping the low pressure means it won’t leak.

It’s that time of year again the dreaded mot. I have a few things to sort/check Fix horn Fix power steering leak Top up gearbox Wash down engine Fix boost pipe Change subframe bushes Check/paint/change front brake pipes Check front brake flexis (Advisory on last mot) I thought I’d start with the none working horn. The horn has always sounded a bit weedy but it’s now completely dead. I found 12v and ground at each connector, the connections themselves were nice and clean. New horn time, let’s check eBay. How fucking much m8? Forget that, much better I then removed the connectors from the original horns, I’ll either solder them directly to the new horns or use them to make an adapter. This will let me fit the new none OEM horns without butchering the original wiring.