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I am also concerned about it getting loose. I'm going back to the Home Depot to get some blue Loctite.

I am still at it. The wiring kit consists of red blue and black cables and a red fuse cable that must go to the battery positive pole but it's rather short, so unless you go to the Home Depot yet again and get a piece of the same gage copper wire and solder it to extend it you are forced to put the relay under the seat. Problem is there is nowhere under the seat to mount it. So I had to drill a hole on the tail end of the frame near the tank screw, but careful, now you have iron filings all around the engine AIR INTAKE... Run for the vacuum and suck every bit out.

I put a rubber tube for the air intake but the adapter that joins it to the horn needs to be glued or else it will fall out.

In addition... The original bracket has a couple of rubber washers at the horn end; when you remove them, as you must, it's no longer a hole but a fork. Back to the vice -- lucky if you have one -- to hammer the two fork prongs together to that the screw you fix the horn to the bracket with won't fit between them. Now the bent bracket shows stress lines. Will it crack?

I now got a new bracket from the locks section of Home Depot and I will try if that will work better. I will have to rust-proof it, naturally.

Most of this may sound dumb to the experienced DIYer but IT IS a neophyte's experience and I suffer the embarrassment gladly if it can help other neophytes out there.

I still have to find out if the cables will reach the horn, and then since I don't want red and white cables showing along the frame -- since Triumph took such great care to conceal their cables -- and will have to wrap the whole think in black tape.

I don't have to wait for the end of this saga to tell you that I REGRET buying this horn. I know that its "beautiful" sound will endure and this rotten experience will be forgotten -- I hope -- but my recommendation is to look for something else. Fewer decibels if you must, but easier to install is definitely the way to go, unless you enjoy pain and inconvenience.