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| | | | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 49 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 49 | Does anyone know where the horn relay lives in a 41 chevy?
A picture would be awesome.
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Last edited by 41chevy!!; 03/16/2009 9:56 PM.
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I'm not 100% sure on this but I don't think a horn relay showed up on a Chevrolet truck for another 10 years or so.
Stuart | | | | | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 49 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 49 | weird......my wiring diagram shows one?!!? | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | 41chevy,
Who supplied the wiring diagram that shows a horn relay? I looked at a '40 factory diagram and a '42 factory wiring diagram. Both identical and neither has a hint of a horn relay.
If you look at your bone stock '41 horn, it probably has two small screw terminals on it. This means no relay. One terminal is battery power from ammeter and the other supplies the ground to the horn through the horn button on the steering wheel.
I think a horn relay in 1941 would have been have been akin to space travel in 1950. I have certainly been wrong before though.
Stuart | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 422 | The first year for the horn relay was 53. | | | | | | OLTrucks Unregistered | | OLTrucks Unregistered | If I remember right cars had horn relays much earlier then 1953.
Mike | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Depends on whether they had the accessory (town & country) horns or not. My 38 has a relay on the accessory horns but it doesn't come in to play with the stock horn mounted on the manifold. The relay is mounted to the accessory horn bracket between the horns.
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | The original question was about a '41 truck wasn't it.  Stuart | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | The accessory horns were available on trucks I've been told. Also wiring diagrams were generic I believe, not discriminating between a car or truck. He advised his diagram showed a relay. 
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Just to further confuse this discussion, here are 1941 Shop Manual wiring diagrams for car and truck. My guess is that the two diagrams are mislabeled: the truck's is probably the one on the top - one horn and no relay; and, the car's diagram is probably on the bottom - a relay and two horns. | | | | | | OLTrucks Unregistered | | OLTrucks Unregistered | Tim now when do you ever "confuse". | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | Here is the diagram for both car and truck in 38. The accessory horns came with their own diagram. My harness came with a copy of it. If I still have it I'll scan & post it.
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 49 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 49 | Just to further confuse this discussion, here are 1941 Shop Manual wiring diagrams for car and truck. My guess is that the two diagrams are mislabeled: the truck's is probably the one on the top - one horn and no relay; and, the car's diagram is probably on the bottom - a relay and two horns. This is the diagram I have and I think you are right, it is miss labelled. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 581 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 581 | Agree all around:
Diagram is mislabeled.
Horns had NO relay originally in '41.
Can't speak to accessories.
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