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Old Feb 17, 2013 | 12:23 PM
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Kill switch?

Any simple method of hooking up a kill switch? I'm going out of town for work, and though my truck isnt a huge target, I'd still sleep better at night with SOME sort of anti theft....

Any one hooked one up on their truck. Whats the best/least troublesome thing to hook a switch to?

I did it on my '67 mustang, just put a switch on the coil power wire... It would crank, but not fire... Which is nice because then you can hear if someone outside is messing with yer **** whie you sleep...

Can a do a similar thing with this?

Or maybe tie into the neutral safety switch? Other Ideas?
 
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Old Feb 17, 2013 | 12:45 PM
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See if there's an ECM fuse you can remove. No power to the computer = no run. Free and easy to do.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2013 | 01:27 PM
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Take the coil wire in the house.
Can you still get "the club"? A visual deterent like that would be best. If you just disable the truck from running, the thief won't know that until he has alredy broken in and destroyed the steering column.
 
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Old Feb 17, 2013 | 01:37 PM
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Take the coil wire in the house.
Can you still get "the club"? A visual deterent like that would be best. If you just disable the truck from running, the thief won't know that until he has alredy broken in and destroyed the steering column.
Yeah I got an old club I'm gonna throw on as a visual deterrant
 
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Old Feb 17, 2013 | 06:55 PM
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You can buy a cheap blinking red light and alarm stickers
 
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Old Feb 17, 2013 | 07:09 PM
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I put a kill switch on my 68 ford, 73 bug, 76 chev , 78 chev, 81 chev , 87 dodge , 98 kia , now my 78 F100 . And many others . My 04 has a security system . Not to hard ,kill power to ecm . Hide a switch .
 
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