Train Horn Placement

[corabellexo]

Hey guys,
I’m going to be putting the train horn from my Fusion on my Ranger this weekend. I’ve found a few spots under the bed that may work for the placement of the compressor & tank, but the horns are 4 wide (approximately 15”) & I wanted them more towards the front.

There seems to be very few areas towards the front end that seem like they won’t effect something else.


If anyone’s installed one, I’d love any feedback!

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[HenryMac]

Call the local Police... they'll tell you where the best place to install it is.

 

[corabellexo]

Lol, if only they weren't illegal ???

 

[Sandman Ranger]

Sad.

How about in the cab?
Then you can also enjoy.

 

[corabellexo]

Sad.

How about in the cab?
Then you can also enjoy.

What's sad about having something to scare the crap out of your friends? There's nothing like a good prank!
Maybe you're just extremely boring

 

[Sandman Ranger]

What's sad about having something to scare the crap out of your friends? There's nothing like a good prank!
Maybe you're just extremely boring

Maybe, but when the idiot does it in traffic or in a parking lot with others around. Not cool. What if an 80 year old couple pulled up next to your friends while you were being cool?

We are not on face book and I am not a kid. So the insulting is wasted here. I think you will find that the Ranger Forum is boring in your eyes.

 

[corabellexo]

Maybe, but when the idiot does it in traffic or in a parking lot with others around. Not cool. What if an 80 year old couple pulled up next to your friends while you were being cool?

We are not on face book and I am not a kid. So the insulting is wasted here. I think you will find that the Ranger Forum is boring in your eyes.

Having a train horn does not mean that the use of it in traffic or with 80 year olds around is being “cool with my friends”.
There hasn’t been a time in my life I’ve felt the need to blast a stranger, old person, etc. nor has it been used in traffic.
I am also not a kid, & I find the Ranger Forum to be quite useful & lighthearted until folks like you decide to put in your two cents where you assume the worst of people.
Have a great day!

 

[GTGallop]

Train horns in and of themselves are not illegal. Not everywhere. However most jurisdictions have a decibel limit that the horn has to be UNDER.

The problem with Train Horns are that only two types of people install them:
1. People who use them legally and as intended as a warning to avoid collisions
2. Inconsiderate short dicked A-Holes who run around blasting them all of the time

The people in the second group are at best 50% of the population of Air Horn owners. But they are 110% of the people that you know have an air horn because they can't resist the button.

I have turned in quite a few people in the #2 category to the police and they took it surprisingly seriously. One guy was a neighbor that ran around blasting his horn all the time. Turns out he had warrants and wasn't "living where he was supposed to be." Police words not mine. I think he was evading arrest by squatting in a vacant house in the neighborhood. Note to would be felons - don't drive around in a giant truck blasting your air horn when the Po-Po are looking for you.

But alas, I digress.

I too had a Ford Fusion - Hybrid. That thing had the MOST anemic horn around. I found that most people never heard it with all of the sound proofing cars are made of. Especially if they had a half way decent radio going. I considered an air horn for the Fusion.

When I bought the Ranger I was immediately excited about the amount of space for things like an air tank and horn. But then when I honked the stock horn for the first time, I was impressed. It is sufficiently boisterous and adding a train horn for me was just flushing money that I could spend on other stuff.

That being said - This is AMERICA. And you are FREE to do with your truck what you want. Put a big ol' honking train horn on it if you want. Just remember, your freedom stops where the next guys starts. While it isn't spelled out in the constitution, I'm pretty sure we all have the right to peaceful neighborhoods and not going deaf. So as long as you operate inside that envelope I se no issue with you expressing your train horn speech. Get your Honk On Brutha!

 

[Rinn69]

When I lived in TX, I had a train horn set-up on my Ram. It came in handy for a couple of things. When I would feed my friends cattle, I'd honk it, shake the feed bucket, and they'd come running....after a few times, I'd just honk the train horn on the way to the feed lot and I could see them coming. Also used it a few times as a Vol FF and EMT. I had lights and sirens on my truck, but when someone wouldn't move to the right, I'd give them a couple of toots with the train horn....not sure if they couldn't hear the siren, but they certainly heard the train horn.
I'd much rather hear a train horn every once in a while, than those idiots that have the 8 bazillion watt stereo with a dozen 18" subs that make a trip through my neighborhood every day....rattles the windows and things hanging on the walls....and I live in a brick house. How I would love to find a focused EMP "gun" that would just fry their system.

 

[Radioman]

Maybe I am boring as you replied to Sandman Ranger and I am almost 75 years old but there is very few things that would make me angrier than someone blasting an train horn near me.

 

[FL.ranger]

Kinda think that’s the point. I think they are funny as hell because they do scare the sh*t out of you.

 

[weasel1]

I think of someone blasted one of those at me, I'd be asking what the hell I did wrong. There have been a could of times where one of those could have come in handy. Some people need a shot of adrenaline and a load in their shorts to realize they fü¢ked up.

Edit. Damn autocorrect got me good!

 

[GTGallop]

Kinda think that’s the point. I think they are funny as hell because they do scare the sh*t out of you.

I think there is also a "Projection of Dominance" aspect to consider with them. And I'm ONLY talking about in APPROPRIATE situations - for the vehicle horn's intended purpose.

When I have seen them used because some one else screwed up in traffic, the horn was honked, the guy jumped in his seat, looked around and sheepishly waved and then pulled his arm back in the car. But when traditional horns are used, a lot of the time the offending party, already brazened by their own traffic shenanigans, will bow up to the driver that honked at them. It usually starts a verbal and finger waving match.

I've never seen any one argue with a train horn when they were the one who F'd Up. to begin with.

If everyone had a train horn then it would be no big deal. But that split second jarring jolt puts people in more of a flight than fight mode just long enough for their ego to crawl under a rock.

 

[GTGallop]

After not one, not two, but three separate incidents recently I'm considering a train horn.

On three separate occasions I've had people entering the freeway come over multiple lanes and merge into me or pull up passing me on the right (I was in the middle lane) and then decide to merge into my lane.

All three times they were holding a cell phone like a slice of pizza and having a conversation. I swerved, braked, and honked. When I recovered I pulled up next to them and they were totally oblivious to what had happened. Still engaged, intensively, in their conversation. They never saw me and never heard me - or at least it never clicked that the horn was for them.

If I do a train horn, I'd like to put it on some sort of delay so the normal horn goes first and then after a second or two if I'm still on the horn, the train horn comes on. That way I can still use the non-obnoxious horn for little toot-toots and then when there is one of those full on emergency moments, I get the train horn.

My only concern is that if the existing horn is already at or very close to the legal limit, then a train horn at the legal limit isn't going to do much. Or is it?

 

[GTGallop]

the OP has posted since this thread....probably safe to say he wont be back

And yet we are free to continue the discussion without him.

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