Where do I install a fuel pump Kill Switch?

[GVL]

I'm really becoming attached to my Runner and want to install a fuel pump kill switch to prevent a quick getaway should some a-hole ever try taking it. I can figure out how to splice a wire and run a hidden switch in-line, but exactly what wire would I cut and where is the wire located?

If there is an easier option that is just as effective I'm open to suggestions (starter kill switch?) however I don't want to do the battery disconnect that resets the SGII and stereo each time. The fuel pump makes most sense I just don't know where to cut.

 

[kball]

pm ing you

 

[MyHigh]

[MENTION=44978]kball[/MENTION] PM me as well, I assume you have the know how on this matter and I'd like to be in on it!

Thank you!

 

[frank_socal]

[MENTION=44978]kball[/MENTION], PM me too


Thanks

 

[BrianSD_42]

may the best PM win!

 

[kball]

[MENTION=44978]kball[/MENTION] PM me as well, I assume you have the know how on this matter and I'd like to be in on it!

Thank you!

[MENTION=44978]kball[/MENTION], PM me too


Thanks

pm'ed....

Let me know if you need anything else. Or you can ask Brian.

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Me too kball! I'd like to know

 

[Webbuff]

I would also like a PM

 

[BrianSD_42]

pm'ed....

Let me know if you need anything else. Or you can ask Brian.

Lol, had the are lots of ways to do it.

BTW [MENTION=44978]kball[/MENTION] are you in the SD area?

 

[Analartist]

OK, I get it that you want to keep the location of the kill switch to yourself, but regarding the rest of this project, why all the secrecy?
Can't you just post the info here for all to see, and benefit from?

 

[KidVermicious]

I'm really becoming attached to my Runner and want to install a fuel pump kill switch to prevent a quick getaway should some a-hole every try taking it. I can figure out how to splice a wire and run a hidden switch in-line, but exactly what wire would I cut and where is the wire located?

If there is an easier option that is just as effective I'm open to suggestions (starter kill switch?) however I don't want to do the battery disconnect that resets the SGII and stereo each time. The fuel pump makes most sense I just don't know where to cut.

If you cut out the fuel pump and somebody tries to snag the truck you'll come back to a dead battery, it happened to a friend of mine twice. Better to tie your switch into the crank wire going to the starter.

 

[Drcoffee]

The easiest way to cut power to the fuel pump is at the fuel tank. Splice a switch into the negative wire before the pump and put the switch anywhere you want. My suggestion is to use a switch designated as a fog light switch on the dash. Hide it in plain sight. But somewhere that you wont accidentally cut power while driving. Better a dead battery than a missing truck.

 

[MStudt]

Put a kill switch on the battery or the ignition (starter). If you use the starter for a kill switch. Everything will work but the starter. A kill switch on the battery will cut power to everything and you won't come out to a drained battery. Kill switch anywhere else will drain the battery if the ignition is left on. If a thief wants your 4runner; a kill switch isn't going to stop them.

 

[BrianSD_42]

OK, I get it that you want to keep the location of the kill switch to yourself, but regarding the rest of this project, why all the secrecy?
Can't you just post the info here for all to see, and benefit from?

I'd suggest people post "how to do it" but not where they hid their own switch.

There are lots of threads already on "how to" do this so I don't think it is a secret.

 

[BrianSD_42]

. If a thief wants your 4runner; a kill switch isn't going to stop them

Actually it will. Its quite binary. You either find the fuel cutoff switch and complete the circuit or you can't send fuel to the engine.

Also, anyone steeling a $5,000 4Runner isn't going to try very hard.

It isn't exactly going to have a high value on the stolen car market.

 

[ajonesnv]

pm ing you

Can I get a PM too!!

 

[frank_socal]

If you cut out the fuel pump and somebody tries to snag the truck you'll come back to a dead battery, it happened to a friend of mine twice. Better to tie your switch into the crank wire going to the starter.

but I have a manual transmission...

 

[TheDurk]

If you cut out the fuel pump and somebody tries to snag the truck you'll come back to a dead battery, it happened to a friend of mine twice. Better to tie your switch into the crank wire going to the starter.

How will this prevent the dead battery? Are you assuming the dead battery is from the thief just cranking and cranking until battery death as opposed to discharge due to whatever hot wire bridge he did to energize the ignition circuit? Because I can't imagine the thief sitting in a truck he busted into cranking that long. After a minute or two he'd bail, and then the battery dies from the live ignition just as it would with the no crank interrupt.

Am I missing something?

Thing about the no crank is that it is relatively easy to short the starter terminal to get the starter to crank. Getting to the fuel pump circuit is a PIA.

 

[KidVermicious]

but I have a manual transmission...

Oh. I guess that kills that idea, huh?

How will this prevent the dead battery? Are you assuming the dead battery is from the thief just cranking and cranking until battery death as opposed to discharge due to whatever hot wire bridge he did to energize the ignition circuit? Because I can't imagine the thief sitting in a truck he busted into cranking that long. After a minute or two he'd bail, and then the battery dies from the live ignition just as it would with the no crank interrupt.

Am I missing something?

Don't know what to tell you. He put a kill switch on the fuel pump ckt, and twice found his Bronco broken into with a dead battery, presumably from a prospective thief cranking the starter. No dome lamp on an EB, lights weren't on, I don't know what else would have drained it.

 

[amalik]

If someone really wants your 4runner, they can just tow it away while it's in a lot. Who said you have to drive it away?

Why are you guys limiting the potential of evil? :evil::evil::evil: