Nautilus horn fitting

[stolzy]

So I order a nautilus from Nippy Norman (excellent service btw) and made a nice stiff bracket. The fitting came with a simple bolt and nut, which I replaced with a nyloc and added washers. Seems that was a mistake, coz the damn thing fell off after about 200 miles and destroyed itself on the road

The bolt is clearly supposed to go in the open slot on the horn (rather than the hole, which is too small), but it seems that the vibration would soon loosen the bolt and allow it to fall off.

How did you fit yours?
(1150GSA btw)

 

[Rugged Path]

Stolzy,
I downloaded the instructions from Nippy Normans site on how to install with a homemade bracket.
It basically sits in the exact location as the original using the bracket.

The only problem I have on my 1150GSA is it keeps blowing the fuse and at the mo hornless. The original fuse size is 7.5amp and I have gone up to 15amp and it still blows after a few beeps. I thought the original relay would handle it but seems not to.

Not sure what the OEM mini relay size is. Would I have to do a total rewire for this Nautilus horn with separate 30amp relay?

If suceed, pm mr s wiring diagram.

Thanks

 

[davegs]

N.horns

The fixing 2slot" on these are crap, obviously ment for car owners, mine also fell off but hung on by the wires. Replaced it with a good bolt and a lock nut (i.e. two nuts) better than lopck tight as woukld have made it aukward to get off.
So far survived two heavy bangs and still works!, persevere 'cos it do wake up drivers it relly does, I'd have two but where to put them.
dave gs. (suggestions on a post card please).

 

[stolzy]

It's the fixing to the bracket which seems flakey to me - the nut only has to loosen a little and the whole thing drops out of the slot. I'll try Dave's locknut suggestion.

IIRC the horn draws 18A and you need to connect via the supplied relay - I don't think the hot wire from the original horn has the cajones. Its a bit of a pain, but not difficult.

 

[davegs]

Nat horns.

You must do this nut up TIGHT! bloody useless thing but mine has not moved and belive me it has two hard knocks! the first ripping the forks off!. I ran a new cable (fused) from the battery and connected this via a relay wired from the original horn wiring, and all works well. Do use a good thick bit of wire so you get maximum voltage to the horn. You only have twelve volts to start with so loose any and it makes a BIG difference.
Get out there and wake 'em up!.
dave (with nautulas H.....).

 

[zerocool]

if you drill the hole in the horn to a larger size then you can bolt the horn in a upright position directly onto the OEM horn attachement. Its a tight fit but clears everything and is rocks solid. I had the same thoughts as you before I fitted mine.

Much easyer but I would test your horn first to make sure it works before you drill it, just incase its faulty.

You will need a relay or risk a cable melting after a good long blast on the horn.

I ran cable I got from halfords from my centech fuse panel (cheers Yossarian!) into the supplied relay and then 17amp cable all way though. I could have used higher powered cable but its not continuos current draw so 17 should be ok. 18amps is the max current draw according to the info supplied with the horn so be sure that ALL you cabling, relays and fuses are up to the job and that your not using the standard circuit as its not gonna last forever!!!

 

[zerocool]

Hope this helps.

The standard bracket on my bike consisted of 3 thin strips of steel as one holiding the horn in place after grinding just a little bit of the bike bracket away. The new horn fits into the same hole. and clears the forks perfectly.

Pic taken from right hand side of the bike where the tank would usually be

 

[davegs]

N. horns.

Well done that man, brillient idea drilling that hole never thought of that.
dave gs.

 

[stolzy]

Thanks for that. I did try to fiddle it into that position, but after half an hour it seemed hopeless. Obviously I should have persisted.
I've refitted it onto my original bracket now with a locknut, although I'm thinking of refitting it like yours - seems more secure with the bolt through the hole rather than the U-bracket.
It definatly works - my ears are still ringing from testing it in the garage