Secret Squirel Kill Switch Ideas

[Paladin]

Wish I had done this before the night I got my 1 and only DWI! I wouldn't have been able to start my own vehicle! LOL

 

[Frankenchevy]

A simple hidden rocker switch that interrupts the pink ignition wire or fuel pump circuit will do.

Anything that allows the starter to crank would be best. That way the thief will be cranking and cranking, but it’ll never fire off. A) they’ll think it’s a POS that just has trouble starting B) the 5 minutes of starter cranking will tip you off.

It’d be pretty easy to hide it in the void below the seatbelt shoulder loop behind the door striker area. You could pretend to be retracting your seatbelt when you get out.

Nice thing about that spot is the thief is sitting in the seat and will look all around the dash area and other places readily visible from the seat, but probably not back there.

 

[Matt69olds]

For the money, it’s hard to beat this.


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Wire the positive wire to the orange power feed to the dome lamp. Wire the negitive wire of the LED to a pink ignition feed wire (or the radio power feed). It sounds strange to have power on both wires of the LED, but it will flash any time the ignition is off. Put the LED in one of the defroster ducts in the dash, make a thief question how bad they want to mess with the truck.


If the truck is carbureted with an electric fuel pump, put the kill switch on the power feed to the pump. That way, the truck will run probably 30 seconds, just long enough to get it out of the parking spot into the road. He would definitely think twice before sticking around in a stolen truck, stalled in traffic!!


The best cheap (free) idea I have heard is to swap the ignition coil wire and one spark plug wire on the distributor cap. Obviously this will only work on engines with a external mounted coil. The engine will crank normally, the engine might even attempt to start as the rotor aligns with the plug wire and coil wire (but will not run). Once again, a thief isn’t going to stick around with a stolen truck he just broke into trying to figure out why it won’t run.

Lock the doors, park in a well lighted area, the LED in the dash, and hope for the best. A determined thief will get your truck given enough time. If the can’t drive it away, they will tow it away, bypassing whatever security you have added. The best advice is to make it as difficult and time consuming as possible.

 

[tobiahr]

I have used the floor dimmer switch kill switch on a 1982 K5 I owned that I would drive topless most of the year. Had a newer model steering column with the dimmer there but no one noticed the additional switch. I also considered using the floor dimmer as originally wired and using the column dimmer as the kill switch. I had a relay interrupting power to the distributor when the key was on and the kill switch was closed and connected to ground. I had at least two people destroy the steering column trying to steal the K5 but no one ever succeeded

 

[69 gto]

Hook the negative or the tach from the dizzy to the cigarette lighter socket instead of the factory positive wire on the back.If you don't want it to start push in the lighter.It'll kill the engine when it's running too,so don't push it in going down the road.