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Location: Springville, UT, USA
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Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
I need to get my truck onto a trailer but I need to get it started and my key is lost somewhere in my basement at my home in a different state. Anyone out ther know how I can do this?
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Location: Toms River, NJ, USA (Transplanted Hoosier)
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Re: Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
Run a wire from the positive side of the coil to the positive battery terminal.
That will make the ignition "hot" Its good to use a toggle switch here to make it easy to turn off. Then you need to short across the starter solenoid to ingage the starter. this can be done with a screw driver but again its much easier to hook up a momentary switch here. Caution!!!! All this bypasses the netural saftey switch. MAKE SURE its in park or you will run yourself over. Last edited by DennyB; 12-24-2006 at 09:33 AM. |
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Re: Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
go to the parts store and pick up a new switch just unplug the old one and plug in new one and let it hang
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Re: Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
aspiring young thieves are gonna love this thread
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Re: Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
I was thinking the same thing. But really these trucks aren't that hard to steal anyway, unless you install a guard dog.
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Re: Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
Most of the kids that want to steal a car are too lazy to do any work to get it that is why they do car jacking. They have the alarms now that use GPS to tell you where your car is at all times. I like the ideal of tracking my car and hunting down anybody that steals my truck. I wish they had that system when my kids were at home, a lot better than tracking mileage and marking tires.
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Re: Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
And to think I was worried about easy the hoods are to open.....
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Lost key: How do I hotwire my truck?
Go pick up a new key+barrel from a junkyard.
Unplug the old barrel. Plug in the new barrel. Turn it over. Drive off.
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