I saw where some people just use a giant air compressor and actual train horns, but that seems like overkill and a good way to get a ticket. I just want something that actually gets attention but doesn't give me a migraine in the process.
Box man, I couldn't tell you how many times I have to exaggerate a point to make it understood.
An air horn rigged to a compressor is just another example of that fact. I wouldn't be putting that on my Firebird, though. I'd save that for Growlz.
Speaking of Growlz, Yesterday I... had promised the woman a ride to the airport. We had decided to go to breakfast first, then a quick stop to the grocery store.
On the way to the grocery store, I could feel a shimmy. I thought it was just ice stuck to a tire. No big dea. On the way HOME from the grocery store, the shimmy got progressively worse, followed by a click, click, click, BANG!
Then, it sounded as if someone had slammed the transmission into park while going forward at about 25 MPH. You all know it, that sound like a noisemaker on New Years Eve.
I almost instantly knew what happened. My brand new Moog u-joint had failed. The caps flew out of the drive shaft and the drive shaft itself smacked the underside of the bed a few times before hitting the street.
Well, that was too much of a pinion angle for the front u-joint so it locked up. That was like putting it in park @ speed.
So there we were, in the middle of an intersection at a dead stop.
Quick thinking got me back on the road here. I pulled the slip yoke out of the transmission tail, threw the drive shaft in the bed, engaged the 4WD, and limped it home.
At least the differential is still rock solid.