Keyless/ shadetree engineers
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Keyless/ shadetree engineers
Ok all you shadetree engineers, I want to go keyless on the 74 F-350 work truck. Strictly low-tech, hidden toggle for ignition, hidden button for start. I would also like to go low-tech keyless for the doors and the utility body. The cab doors I was thinking electric locks, with a LOCK button inside, and an unlock button under the left front fender lip. However the tool box is gonna need a bit of engineering if anyone has any ideas;
the box is a Back-Pac design which is a 2 foot wide box the shape of the back of the cab that mounts on the frame in front of the bed. It has 2 doors on each side, a low door that is perpendicular to the ground, and a high door that is at the angle of the top half of the cab. the latches are the paddle type rectangular handle with the key lock that keeps the paddle from pulling out.
Any ideas???
the box is a Back-Pac design which is a 2 foot wide box the shape of the back of the cab that mounts on the frame in front of the bed. It has 2 doors on each side, a low door that is perpendicular to the ground, and a high door that is at the angle of the top half of the cab. the latches are the paddle type rectangular handle with the key lock that keeps the paddle from pulling out.
Any ideas???
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Check the Hot Rod parts stores for the door openers.
They have hand remote and car button remote options like to are asking for.
They use them after shaving the door handles on rods.
You can always go with a remote ignition dis-arming kit if need be as well.
You can fashion a start button out of any type button switch.So it would help if you said where you would like the start button.
They have hand remote and car button remote options like to are asking for.
They use them after shaving the door handles on rods.
You can always go with a remote ignition dis-arming kit if need be as well.
You can fashion a start button out of any type button switch.So it would help if you said where you would like the start button.
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I just built a push-button start for my 78. I used 3 toggles (acc1, acc2 and ign), 3 relays, and a push-button. VERY low-tech. They plug into the existing harness that connected to the key switch. I don't have a mechanical fuel pump, only an electric one which is switched by a hidden switch. It'll start and run for about a minute with the pump off.
Here it is in the bottom right corner of the dash.
As for locks, the electric ones can be operated by several types of switches. Magnetically operated reed switches come as small as 1/16" square by 1" long and can go just about anywhere (like at the base of the windshield or rear window). All you need is a small magnet to close them. I'm putting one in my DD because I keep locking the keys in it.
K.
Here it is in the bottom right corner of the dash.
As for locks, the electric ones can be operated by several types of switches. Magnetically operated reed switches come as small as 1/16" square by 1" long and can go just about anywhere (like at the base of the windshield or rear window). All you need is a small magnet to close them. I'm putting one in my DD because I keep locking the keys in it.
K.
Last edited by KJKozak2; Mar 16, 2006 at 04:47 PM.
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