Stebel air horn

[mtnman]

OK, I have a Stebel Nautilus Compact air horn. Has anyone here ever taken one of these apart? I mean taken the horn apart from the compressor? This would enable the horn to be mounted in the original horn location and the compressor mounted behind the side cover. Has anyone here done this?

 

[biker1059]

You'll be the first. Be sure and post pictures.

 

[MileEater]

taking Stebel apart

I got a Nautilus Stebel a week or so ago. I have an '06 Classic, and I'm
in the States... so I have no room under any side-covers for anything.

As far as I can see there is pretty much no good place to mount his
thing as is. So I have separated the horns from the compressor. This
is not hard, just a screw driver and a little patience. Ive cut off the
clamping plastic curled things that used to grip the compressor.

I used a 3/8" twist drill, held in my hand, to ream out the hole in the
plastic horns for the air tube. Then epoxied an 1/8" coper pipe nipple
in there.. about 1" long. I checked this all out last night with a five foot
piece of rubber fuel line... very loud, and no delay in horn from the rubber
tube.

The horns will fit fine in behind the stock funky nacelle below the headlights.

I'm still working out exactly where to install the compressor. As small as it
is there is still no space under anything on my R III for it. I'm thinking
to mount it on the left side, just above the left passnger footpeg; probably
inside a bit of chrome exaust tube I'll cut to fit.

Cheers,

Roy

 

[vikei]

No need to root around with this, mate. Buy two electro-pneumatic (flat) horns of two different frequencies, and have them mounted under one of the side covers. You then have three horns, and it looks neat (that is, invisible) and is extremely powerful a noise when you need it.
Cheers,
Einar

 

[MileEater]

I separated mine because in California there is NO space available anywhere
under anything. The side-covers are stuffed!

In the end it was kinda fun and no big deal to install and connect things
together with a bit of fuel line.

Cheers!

Roy

 

[Hipporider]

Can any one say if these Stebel horns are louder than the Fiamm horns as theyre freaken' loud as well!
Years ago I was on a ride on a twisty mountain road with my mate riding along on his BMW R1000RS '70's model.The sign said"large vehicles sound horn" so , naturally , he tooted his Fiamm (stock on BMWs back then!) horn.We get around the corner, and a car was pulled over for us!Those fiamms sound like truck horns just about!
Gotta get something for the Rocket though as the embarassing squeek that Triumph call a horn is bordering on dangerous!!

 

[MileEater]

Suonds loud, http://www.aerostich.com/catalog/US/Fia ... 17137.html

I don't know if this one would fit in the place of the original, but for a lot
of R IIIs it would fit under the left side cover. In my case the side covers
are full of SMOG equipment....

Roy