Good Friend Helps Put a Train Horn on His Pal’s Ford F-150
We all know that the Ford F-150 has enough torque to pull like a freight train. Now this modified F-150 sounds like one, too.
According to Ford, a four-wheel-drive F-150 XLT SuperCrew with standard mirrors and a 5.5-foot bed is 19 feet long, eight feet wide, and nearly 6.5 feet tall. Despite its ample dimensions, there’s a good chance you’ve discovered some people out on the road just don’t seem to be aware of its presence because they’re too busy texting or checking to see if they have something in their teeth. If someone doesn’t spot this particular F-150 coming, they’ll definitely hear it thanks to its new train horn.
The horn and the F-150 it gets installed on belongs to a friend of the host of the YouTube channel Ain’t Caught Sh*t Fishing Club (let’s call him Club President). Being a good pal, Club President agreed to put the sonic cannon on his buddy’s truck.
At this point, you might be thinking the mounting point is obviously somewhere up front. We can see why you’d picture it going there, but Club President actually mounts the train horn in the back of the truck. It’s a laborious process. Not only does he have to remove the spare tire, he also has to make a bracket to hold the trumpets. He mounts them backward to make sure they don’t suck in water and debris. The whole assembly fits where the spare used to.
The lines from the trumpets run through a check valve, then go up and into the back of the bed. An air pump and a 5-gallon tank now take up some of its precious cargo space.
Club President’s friend wanted a separate activation method for his distinctive alert system. That required Club President to wire up and mount an on/off toggle switch under the dashboard and a big black button on it. Once he fires up the truck, the air compressor starts building pressure. “Charges up to a hundred and fifty PSI roundabouts.” Club President’s phone audio can’t convey the true volume of the train horn, but that’s a good thing. He says, “You’ll go literally deaf if you’re standing next to it.”
For the sake of his demo, Club President decides to hit that ominous black button once the needle on the compressor gauge hits the 80 PSI mark. Let’s just say the train horn sounds exactly how you’d expect it to sound: ridiculous and startling. As Club President puts it, “It’s loud as hell.” Wisely, he only blows it twice out of fear of attracting local police attention.
This train horn mod requires a substantial amount of work and functional sacrifice, but who knows? Maybe the owner of this truck will find the loss of bed space and his spare tire worth it the second he gets to scare the daylights out of someone who just cut him off.
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