Horn hole blocking plates

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pappentl

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Is anyone making blacking plates for the horn holes? I'd rather not reinvent them if available.

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Tom
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Different people have done it different ways
..the best most common is to make out of aluminium and mount them off the horn mounts and then have the front bend up vertical and match the horn hole profile
 
however you make them, you will need to install longer brackets for the horns. the original bracket put the horn partially inside the "horn hole".
 
After a good deal of time thinking about this I bought a sheet of galvanized steel for furnace ducting and cut them to fit. Put them in front of the holes so they're pressed backward, there is a handy threaded bolt hole to keep them in position. Not high tech but you don't really see them and it took 15 minutes. Now I can take another couple of years figuring out the RIGHT way to do it. Slightly better solution than duct tape :)
 
Michael said:
After a good deal of time thinking about this I bought a sheet of galvanized steel for furnace ducting and cut them to fit. Put them in front of the holes so they're pressed backward, there is a handy threaded bolt hole to keep them in position. Not high tech but you don't really see them and it took 15 minutes. Now I can take another couple of years figuring out the RIGHT way to do it. Slightly better solution than duct tape :)
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I just made flat panels out of 16ga alloy and painted them flat black.. as the area behind the grille is flat black, they're invisible. I used the radiator points to mount the blanking plates. I just through bolted them in. It made it easier at the same time to install the radiator! I just have to use washers abd nuts instead of fighting to align and install bolts. I drilled a half inch hole for the horn wires (to allow for a rubber grommet) and sliced a slot with a die grinder for the horn mounting bracket. I bought longer horn brackets off ebay.. Ashley Hinton in the UK was the source
 
Austin Healer said:
however you make them, you will need to install longer brackets for the horns. the original bracket put the horn partially inside the "horn hole".
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Yes Sean is correct. I made longer brackets with a slots for the 2 bolts The bracket fits through a slot in the block off plate and the horn is pulled towards the plate and tightened with the 2 bolts It is the horn pushing against the plate that holds it tight against the cut out hole. Zero modification to any original metal and only 2 bolts to remove and replacement of the original horn mounting bracket and back to totally original
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IvaTiger said:
Yes Sean is correct. I made longer brackets with a slots for the 2 bolts The bracket fits through a slot in the block off plate and the horn is pulled towards the plate and tightened with the 2 bolts It is the horn pushing against the plate that holds it tight against the cut out hole. Zero modification to any original metal and only 2 bolts to remove and replacement of the original horn mounting bracket and back to totally original View attachment 19491
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As Doug at Tiger Auto has always said, "some modification required".
 
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