Baseball bat is much harder to prove happened. Just say'n...

 

I can't stand thievery, makes for some crazy fantasies....

 

Yeah? Never knew anyone who carved notched in their bat!

Disclaimer: Of course I am joking. I would never premeditate deadly force. Stopping force, yes. Deadly is the unfortunate side of confrontation, a risk with us every day.

Now man-eating crocodiles...they have a mind of their own!

 

What about an external SS braided sleeve for your filler tube. You could couple it with a regular cap and an anti-siphon inner tube liner as well.

Spectre 6008B, Spectre Steel Braided Hose Sleeve | Spectre


Another option might be a custom length SS braided radiator hose. I'm not sure of the fill tube diameter on our trucks, though. The braided radiator hoses I've seen are typically 1-1/2" diameter.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sp...FdcagQod_rwAVg


As mentioned already, though, once you've secured the filler tube, your fuel lines and tank then become the next potentially vulnerable targets.

 

Keep running the truck as near empty as you can. If there is little to no fuel there they can't steal it. Harder on you to deal with though. There is nothing you can do to stop a determined thief any way.

 

Leave a sacrificial five gallon can of fuel in the bed with a couple of pounds of sugar dissolved in it. Be sure to write " DIESEL" in sharpie on the side of the can.

Chances are it is one person stealing the fuel and when he can afford to fix his fuel system he won't need any more fuel.

 

Now that is a neat idea! The only downside is that they might be stealing it to resell to "innocent" folks back in their poorer neighborhood, but even those folks must understand where the gas is coming from... unless he's giving it to his dealer for free crack.. then it's a win-win!

 

Never met a thief who could suck gas with broken ribs.


I had a stereo jacked out of my jeep about 20 years ago and they did so much damage I needed another vehicle so I got a blazer while the jeep was put back together by insurance. In getting to that point in life (doing higher end system designing and installs), I'd had several talks with the police about anti-theft measures and what was too far - "can't deliberately harm them." OK.

So when I needed to enlarge the opening in the dash of my K5 blazer; I was, shall we say, Crude. I used tin snips, bent the jagged steel back at 90 degrees to form twisted razor blades with nice pointy tips that were parallel to the radio sleeve. You could remove the deck without harm, but the sleeve would bite you if you weren't aware of how it was framed in punji spikes around it.

Well, the new deck was only in the blazer for about 2 weeks when it got stolen. Blood everywhere!

 

Should have been more careful, oh well at least it was easy to clean up I hope...I mean really who would be rude and leave blood in another mans car.... (Gee I hope this doesn't show how cynical and hateful towards thief's I can get...

 

I would love to meet the perp now and see how their scars turned out. It was a $100 deck when $100 didn't buy you much. They did $900 in damage getting it.

The blood cleaned up easy. The previous owner must've scotch guarded it or something. It was on the front seat, back seat, armrest, door panel, and floor carpet in the front and back. Did I mention I got them good?

Cops said I couldn't put razor blades in there because that's intent to harm. Well, if you're not supposed to have your hands in my dash, why does it matter if I put razor blades in it? My having nice stuff is not an invitation to steal it. There's no compulsive urge to break into a car like there might be for a kid to jump in a swimming pool. The cops tried saying I had an attractive nuisance because I had a nice jeep. Think that'd fly if I broke into some mansion and said "It was just so inviting looking compared to my house - I let myself in!" Heck no...

 

Razor blades? I thought they were called "shims" LOL.

 

I had asked about razors back in HS, this happened 5 years later when I was 22. The Blazer was just shards of dash which used to hold the twin-**** radios. Not everyone's a professional stereo installer ya know (even though I really was at the time).


My jeep had 5K in stereo gear in it and they slashed the seats and door panels when they figured out I made things VERY difficult to remove and ended up breaking the valuables when trying to pry them out. See, I used welding tabs instead of screws, and all the amps were bolted to a chunk of 3/4" MDF that was sandwiched between the floor and the rear seat hold-down brackets (4 torx bolts held those in and they were rather large - probably T50ish so no smash and grabber is going to have one. On the underside with the nuts, I had big fender washers and then used silicone to prevent the nuts from spinning independent of the washer. Were I ever to need to remove those amps, I'd grind the nuts out from below. As it happened, the thieves popped the screw heads off the back of the amps (the ones holding the heatsinks to the chassis), so you know they weren't worth anything with all the damage from prying them up.

I had a rider on my policy for all that gear, but they didn't want to pay it until I threatened to sue them 4 months after the fact. The thieves got pissy and cut all the wiring under the dash when they couldn't figure out my anti-hotwiring relays. See, instead of a NC relay that the alarm opens with 12v when activated, my starter was on a NO relay that needed 12v with the key. Dead simple arrangement, but thieves see those relays and think "Snip!" From then on, you have no wire going to the starter solenoid even though they think they closed the circuit. Good luck buddy!

 

If you decide to go the surveillance route I'll suggest the Dahua Indoor/Outdoor cameras. They are good quality and cost < $100. They connect to your network with ethernet cables. I've used the following models Dahua IPC-HDBW4300E and Dahua IPC-HFW4300S basically the same except one is bullet and the other is dome. They have a webpage interface and you can stream their output to a computer/dvr that accepts video streams. I use zoneminder (free) to store my video. If I remember correctly the cameras have sd card slots as well. These are night cameras too. I purchased my from Amazon. Their web page is:
http://www.dahuasecurity.com/en/us/