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Old 02-27-2009, 09:25 PM   #26
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Re: Easy no-hack hidden kill switch

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Any chance they read about your switch here?

we never mentioned or posted it....like big al said if they want it, they'll get it!
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Old 02-27-2009, 10:13 PM   #27
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Re: Easy no-hack hidden kill switch

Which is why I some-what prefer mechanically killing the truck. I also have some electric tricks that kill power to the cab entirely. At night, even if you did hot wire it under the hood, you'd still have no head lights or tail lights, thus getting pulled over wouldn't take too long.

Want to wire a kill switch for the starter's power cable, and some sort of fuel cut-off.. Just make it hard as hell when I go into down town for "fun".

Can't get it out of Park either when I leave it.

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Old 02-27-2009, 10:21 PM   #28
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Cool idea!

I've thought about using the Cargo Light switch in the cab, and just hard wiring the cargo light to always come on with the dome.
mm, good idea.

Someone on here posted about how they'd turned a cig lighter into a kill switch. Lighter element in the socket, the truck starts, lighter element out, it doesn't start. I was gonna toy with that sometime, but I like your cargo light idea better.
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Old 02-27-2009, 11:50 PM   #29
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Re: Easy no-hack hidden kill switch

There's some good ideas in this thread. I have a hidden switch under my dash that kills the power to my airride, so when its switched off the compressor wont run and the valves wont work so you cant air it up. It also comes in handy if I have to let someone else drive my truck, I can air it up, then cut the power to the switch box to keep them from "playing" with it.
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Old 02-28-2009, 10:02 AM   #30
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Re: Easy no-hack hidden kill switch

I like the idea of choke knob as kill switch.

I used the choke knob to switch my FlexALite "hotrod heater" which is under my dash.

I'm like more proud of that damn choke knob than any of the other seriously hard stuff I've done to muh truck!

It must really suck to live where vehicles get stolen like that. I guess my theft deterent was always "if they think they can drive this lifted 4-speed beast, then let 'em try"
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Old 02-28-2009, 10:44 AM   #31
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we never mentioned or posted it....like big al said if they want it, they'll get it!
They want mine they better bring a tow truck. Hidden hood latch and if they get it open no battery under the hood,crime guard alarm,hidden neutral switch,separate switch for the fuel injection pump,hidden battery disconnect. It would take way to much time to figure it all out. Now a tow truck that's a different story.
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Old 02-28-2009, 07:30 PM   #32
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mm, good idea.

Someone on here posted about how they'd turned a cig lighter into a kill switch. Lighter element in the socket, the truck starts, lighter element out, it doesn't start. I was gonna toy with that sometime, but I like your cargo light idea better.
Figured out how to do it, and it's slick. Just buy a new switch from radio shack hat looks closest to the original). Pull the cargo light off, and unplug the OE switch and cut off the connectors, and wire them together. Remove the OE switch and get your new one ready. May have to cut the screw holes on the switch to get it to be the same width as the holes on the cargo light switch plate. Fish a pair of wires down the B pillar. Speaker wire would be good. Solder them to the switch, and put the cargo light and switch bits back together. Run one wire to the TACH side of the HEI dizzy, and the other wire to a ground. And done.

When the switch is turned on, it grounds the HEI and it cuts the ignition.

Might do it soon, was just planning it today.
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Old 02-28-2009, 08:51 PM   #33
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well i had a custom switch on my truck too my high beam light was screwed up and only started when i pushed on and off like 20x and to find a the right sequence to get the lights turned on without cutting the truck off does that count?
Now that is an old-truck solution!!!
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