locking hood?

[longhorn70gmc]

Yes,
Good point on a potential fire while a cable and seperate lock is installed. About the best way to come close to being prepaired is at least have the key on your key chain that starts the truck. I use the cable for now as a tempory to get me through until I find a cable and contact Putter and ask him to modify my hood latch for me or I get aventurous and do it myself. I am liking Trans Amz Ideal as well and excited to see what he designs. I am all about securing anything and everything to give thieves a problem right back at them. I have even designed my own locking gas cap for both my trucks, example is my avitar. My next venture is to Mcgyver a protective plating system to cover my gas lines under the cab area. I want to design a antisyphin for the gas fill tube of the tank too. Again, GREAT thread.
R/

[tranz am]

ok guys figured it out I'll post some morer pics from the project in a few.

Simple and effective!

[tranz am]

First I sat there looking at the hood latch for about an hour trying to figure out the best way to go about doing
this.
I thought of many different ways to go about it, but eventually the simplest design seamed the best route.
So here is my tech article.


Before pics.




This is the same gage thickness at the metal used on the hood latch itself.



then added a 90*.



It was then cut down a bit on each end to fit correct.



Where it will be mounted.




To make this lock effective the handle has to be welded to the levers or a screw driver or pry bar can open the hood (excuse my shatty welds)




to be cont...

[tranz am]

Continuation

Tacking it on.




Drilled a hole just big enough to get the lock through and installed the lock.




The lock worked well but needed to be reinforced to prevent it from flexing so I added an edge to it.







to be cont....

[tranz am]

Last Continuation

Here it is Installed.




From the outside the lock is not noticeable unless you get low.




Thick coat of Gloss black Rustolium to finish it off.



It works very well. I can pull up on it very hard and it wont move much at all.
Let me know what you guys think.