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10-04-2007, 10:06 PM
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spare key find
doing a rebuild and was in the garage tonight thinking about my next move on this teardown when I was looking at the old engine wiring harness I noticed an old rusty key in the harness channel. I also found a magnetic key box under the fender when I first bought the truck. I quess the PO was always losing his keys. i was wondering if it might be an orginal, but it looks like a rekeyed spare. thought you guys might like this.......rick
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10-04-2007, 10:12 PM
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HERE.......Somewhere
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Re: spare key find
they musta had all timers
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10-04-2007, 10:44 PM
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Re: spare key find
rick0312 ...
You have a "KEY" post! 
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10-05-2007, 05:01 AM
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Re: spare key find
That's still done today on vehicles. You can still buy the key boxes at auto stores and put them under the fender. Was nothing original about it.
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10-05-2007, 09:14 AM
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Re: spare key find
back in the last century when i was a kid with my first car i called my dad cause i had lost my keys while at the beach// needless to say after that day the first stop from then on with a new car was the keyshop and installing the spare key in the engine compt
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10-05-2007, 09:53 AM
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Re: spare key find
only problem with the cars of today, there aint enought "metal" for a magnet to stick to.
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10-05-2007, 11:06 AM
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Re: spare key find
I found the same thing on my Blazer. The previous owner had wired a spare key to the fender under the hood. On my 1 ton, the previous owner had wired a bottle opener to the core support. I kept the bottle opener on the 1 ton and I've made good use of it a couple of times.
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10-05-2007, 12:27 PM
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