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How do you disassemble a standard manifold mounted AD horn?

I just want to refinish/repaint the exterior but I can't get it apart.

About all you can take off is the mounting bracket and the half globe top.

The screw on the back of the rounded piece is all that holds it on. The rest as I remember is riveted togehter just tape off the connections and paint it.

Cool. Thanks guys! I took the screw out earlier but it took a bit of prying to get it apart. Once apart those rivits are actually small carriage bolts. Removing those separates the guts from the horn section.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7135/7714418842_8c97ff0830_z.jpg

...I may be the one in the dark here but I don't remember that horn being on an AD. The ones I remember, and have my original, from my 52 panel is what I call shaped like a "shell". Hmmm...

Alvin,

For all A-D years, the accessory dual horns were seashell horns. The standard single horn from 47-52 was the horn shown above (I think it was called a clarion style horn - maybe someone else knows what its shape was called ).

The standard single horn in 53-55 was the seashell horn. It was mounted on the intake manifold in 1953 and it was mounted on the front of the radiator frame in 54-55.

Dual seashell horns were mounted on the firewall, near the location where the deluxe heater motor came through the firewall. In 54/55, the accessory dual horns were mounted on the front of the radiator frame.

Thank You,Tim.
Things sort of come back to my mind....after I'm reminded. I did NOT know about the twin shell style vs the single horn information. As usual,Tim, your on the money and in the know!!

Klaxon type.
"Delco-Remy got into the horn business in 1924 with the purchase of the Klaxon Horn Company"

Came across this while searching ... its got a great explosion of the GM horn.
http://www.delcoremyhistory.com/Products/horns.htm

Thanks, BLUEMEANIE. That's it, many people call it a klaxon horn.

That term is regularly used but it is Might be somewhat inappropriate, since it is a brand name for a different style electro-mechanical horn (ah oo gah horn).

From what I've read since finding that site I linked above, a Klaxon horn is any horn that uses a motor-driven toothed wheel that ratchets against a metal stud attached to a diaphragm.

Also... "Even after the Klaxon design was replaced" with the electromagnetic design "the term 'Klaxon' was still used to mean an automotive horn." ...not sure how long this went on for tho.