Train Horn on your Tundra

Has anyone in the group put on one of the train horns that does not require an air tank?

 

Added these to my wife's 4runner pro. Surprisingly loud as FK....
I was so impressed I ordered a set for myself for the tundra.... gonna have to do some mods to get them to fit.... not enough room with the grille light bar....
Also went with a horn relay kit as well...

 

About twice per day I wish I had one of these.

 

Let me know how you plan on wiring. I bought one a few months back and then got really busy at work. I may make this a spring time project.

 

You'll probably be pretty disappointed with ones that don't require a tank, you wont get that real train sound or semi truck sound without air. You can do an electric air horn but it requires the speaker and amp. I've done the electric air horn in the past and its great but Im going to go with a Hadley truck horn and Viar tank and compressor this time around.

 

In for a video of what it sounds like or an action shot of you caisund stained undies using it.

I bet in Boston you will get a ton of use out of it.

 

Like joe said..... these types of setup only provide about 20 psi at most to the horn. Take the same horn and put 100 psi to it and it'll make you notice. Still its not as loud or "train like" unless you really have good metal serious pressure. 150 psi at least. That's costly. I started out with something like you're asking about and ended up settling for the same horn with 100 psi external tank pressure. It still wasn't "train like". More "bull horn" like. Just my penny.

 

Interested about the electric air horn and amp and speaker you ran.

 

I did make a bracket for mounting the horns behind the grill. I also tapped into the the OEM horn wire to send power to the air horn solenoid. Will try to get a picture of mount when I get time. https://www.tundras.com/threads/diy-compressor-install.19422/

 

I have the tankless air horn. Works great. Simple wiring. Red to the switch and back to battery. Black is grounded. Loud enough to startle someone nearby. My friend has the multi horn with air tank. That’s loud AF. I can occasionally test mine in my driveway but neighbors notice. I’d be reluctant to test my friends. It’s that loud

 

Finally got time to install my horns. Had to manufacture a mounting bracket and do some wiring. But, they now fit. And man are they loud!!!

 

what kind are these? electric? any link or brand name or hint on where to find them?

 

God I miss my early 20s.

I had a locomotive horn mounted where my spare was on my Toyota pickup with a 10 gallon air tank and a compressor that pretty much ran constantly to keep up with the 125 psi pressure switch that was installed.

But good lord was that fun!!

 

@TRD-tv , found these on Amazon

I used a 40a relay from the battery and the positive factory horn wire to trigger the relay. I removed the driverside horn and custom made a bracket to attach the horns to the original mount location....

 

i wish i knew how to wire a relay lol im good at wiring just cant figure that part out, id just wire it to a momentary switch

 

A buddy of mine has them, train horns. They can be heard from miles or so from my home. I can hear him coming at night time when real trains are not running.
My buddy uses a pressure cylinder to run his 4 horns mounted under his bed, painted black, a 2000 psi cylinder powers them.

He’s got a ticket for $1000.00 one day. They wanted to impound his truck to apparently. He sold his first truck as the cops had it in for him after that, well so did all the people he scared to.

He kinda went over board on scaring people. The cops told him they had been receiving complaints about a certain black dodge truck and it’s owner.
Please just be careful how you honk your super loud train horns.
I’d guess some don’t like it. Lol.

 

@TRD-tv
Try this, what I used. Simple.

 

I fully second everything said here. Get one with a compressor. It's pretty straight forward to wire into your existing horn wires. I spliced my wife's air horn into the oem wires and have no problems using the steering wheel to activate the new siren of awareness. Best $33 bucks I've spent on Amazon. Wife also claims it has saved her from a few drifting lane changers not aware of their surroundings.

$30 GAMPRO 12V 150DB Car Air Horns, 18"es Chrome Zinc Single Trumpet Truck Air Horn with Compressor for Any 12V Vehicles Trucks Lorrys Trains Boats Cars (BLACK)

https://www.amazon.com/GAMPRO-Inche...654-49b6-8227-abb8f0197d1a&pd_rd_i=B07QXQ9HW9

 

I have this installed. I'm satisfied with it. Much better than OEM.

 

Had this on my old Tundra many years ago. Worked extremely well without taking up much space. They were sold at Harbor Freight($9) forever but now seem to be at pep boys($27) and horriblezon ($46).

 

Mine.....

 

I have a train horn from horn blasters I plan on mounting after the wheather turns in spring

 

Hahaha

 

This is the way. Those tankless horns just sound goofy

 

I know we're talking compressor type (air driven) for the most part here, but for those that can't justify the expense or space these suckers take up, you would be surprised how well these little tankless jobs work. Guaranteed way better than any O.E. horn in tone and most importantly, volume. Will most definitely get the distracted phone scrollers attention at the stop light once it's gone green.
No, it'll never be a train horn, but it's F'in LOUD!

https://hornblasters.com/collections/electric-horns/products/compact-electric-horn

 

Just curious where you're finding space to mount it?

 

That's the Stealth spare tire mounting kit.

 

So you ditch the spare tire?

 

It's in the bed.

 

I am trying to find a semi truck style horn that is really low in tone. Seen other trucks with them and semis, just cant find them online.