68 GT convertible project
The shifter pivot bracket on the trans cleaned up really nice. I still need to get a new bushing. The original one was in two pieces.
after
I just got done rebuilding one of the horns. Only one of them worked when I tested it. I'll probably just blast and repaint the working horn. I read a post, that Mike from BE&A wrote, on how to rebuild Prestolite horns. I thought I'd try it out on this Sparton horn.
First I drilled the heads off of all six rivets and separated the two halves.
With the horn separated, I drilled out the rivets and tapped them for some 8-32 screws. To clean the contacts, I doubled up some sand paper and inserted it in between the contacts. Then I just pulled out the sand paper. I did this a few times to make sure the contacts were good and clean. The spring steel center piece just had some minor surface rust on it so I just left it alone. If you blast the center piece you will ruin it.
I found an old Christmas box that my wife had been saving and used it to make two new gaskets. There is one gasket on either side of the center piece. I used four C-clamps to hold the horn together in order to test it. All that it took to get it working again was to sand the contacts.
Once the horn was screwed back together, all it needs is a coat of paint. If I were doing a stock restoration I would have used longers screws...cut the ends off flush with the stock rivets and ground down the head of the screw to look more stock.
The shifter pivot bracket on the trans cleaned up really nice. I still need to get a new bushing. The original one was in two pieces.
after
I just got done rebuilding one of the horns. Only one of them worked when I tested it. I'll probably just blast and repaint the working horn. I read a post, that Mike from BE&A wrote, on how to rebuild Prestolite horns. I thought I'd try it out on this Sparton horn.
First I drilled the heads off of all six rivets and separated the two halves.
With the horn separated, I drilled out the rivets and tapped them for some 8-32 screws. To clean the contacts, I doubled up some sand paper and inserted it in between the contacts. Then I just pulled out the sand paper. I did this a few times to make sure the contacts were good and clean. The spring steel center piece just had some minor surface rust on it so I just left it alone. If you blast the center piece you will ruin it.
I found an old Christmas box that my wife had been saving and used it to make two new gaskets. There is one gasket on either side of the center piece. I used four C-clamps to hold the horn together in order to test it. All that it took to get it working again was to sand the contacts.
Once the horn was screwed back together, all it needs is a coat of paint. If I were doing a stock restoration I would have used longers screws...cut the ends off flush with the stock rivets and ground down the head of the screw to look more stock.