Anti Theft Engine Immobilizer you can make for less than a penny
 

Want to make an inexpensive engine immobilizer for your truck?
Take a 3.5" nail and bend it like so...

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...r_lock_pin.jpg

insert the pointy end into the cut off lever then pull it over and hook it onto
the pump bracket

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...n_on_lever.jpg

Paint it black and no one would ever realize it's there.

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...n_on_lever.jpg

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Poverty, of course, is the father.

That's downright brilliant.

Yep, 10 thumbs up! [guitar]

Maybe you meant a 4" nail???
1+2+1=4!!!

Just ribbing you!

That is so cool....[roll]

Cheap, easy and effective, that's my kind of mod.

excellent
 

the truck would start but wouldn't go far...

Mine won't start with the fuel shut off pulled back.

Mine won't either.

Stuck! :cool:

Brilliant !


You guys brought us RUSH, and now this ? I wish I was born in Canada, as I'd be smart too ![laugh]

I wish I was born American so I could have been in the USAF!
Especially Strategic Air Command in the 60's

That's ingenuity at it's finest.

Well Done!!:cheers:

I love cheap and easy things like this to disable your vehicle. On any old car with plug wires, you can just remove the wire from the coil to the distributor, and you can also pop off the distributor cab and remove the rotor.

thats what i used to do when we would take the 1957 chevy to St.Louis to a car show, i would keep the coil wire in my pocket. [coffee]

of corse if they knew anything and looked under the hood they could have pulled off another plug wire and used it as a coil wire and drove off on 7 cyl.

Nah, those 1's are dimension lines........ Thinking Jim is an Engineer by trade.

AH, another soul formed by Dr. Strangelove.......... Aren't Mushrooms beautiful in the AM? :cool:

I would read it 2" plus or minus approximately...... inside dimensions on the bends.

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ta/500/pin.jpg

this is the pic I should have used in the first post.

Fixed it for you. ;)

The guys with the powerstrokes would probably laugh at all the trouble we have to go through for something like this. All they'd have to do is hide all the extension cords.

spectacular !!!!!

Cool

[laugh]...Now that is a friggin hilarious statement...only 'cause it's true....[laugh]

I just did this little anti theft project tonight. Found on my donor 93 that I had to use a 4" nail, and the bends had to be 2 1/2" apart.

There has been a lot of theft going on in my area. Unfortunately it was never like that, a lot of people from the city have been moving up here. I lock my truck every night but leave the keys in it until I make my rounds and lock everything up, I was watching TV when I heard a diesel cranking over. When I went to the side window I realized someone was stealing my truck. I snuck up to the truck and slammed the door on him. He panic'd and tried to get out the passenger door but it doesn't work (truck was a work in progress at the time [laugh]) I called the cops with him sitting in my truck, city cops arrived in less than three minutes.

He was arrested, cops told me it wasn't a wise move because he could have had a gun. I wasn't thinking at the time. My truck didn't start because he didn't know you have to unlock the pull knob by the radio and push it in. I made about $500 from him on his good gracious.

So this is what I learned;
1.) Call the cops before your pursue and know that you're risking your life for a material.

2.) Pull knobs are a good security device and a battery that dies after you get about five good cranks out of it.

3.) Never leave the keys in your vehicle and always lock it.

4.) Put pants on before you pursue a criminal.

Most important!

Back in 81 we had a chimney fire, I had just got home from working the overnight, mom and dad were gone ( dad was fire chief of our volunteer force ), and my sister came screaming into my bedroom saying the house was on fire. Sure enough, I jumped out of bed, told here to call the FD, and grabbed an extinguisher..... Don't really remember how I got on the roof, but I was just finishing evacuating the 10 Lb ABC extinguisher when the first trucks rolled up.

You would think Firemen wouldn't laugh at someone who didn't even realize they only had underwear on and had done their job for them..........:conf:

A few years ago, they tried to take both my trucks, punched out two ignitions
but failed to get them started.
They almost had them, little did they realize that the locks were so worn that
any key inserted would have turned the ignition and they could have been on their way without smashing the columns!

I have something in my truck that deters all theft. A manual transmission.

Where did the pictures go?

Beauty fades with time.

I know. As I recall, it was downright elegant.

Can someone dig them out of the bit bucket and put them back?

I'll see if I can fix it,

Aside from my truck I WISH someone would steal the vehicles I drive! The joke would definitely be on them.[laugh] On a more serious note someone stole my neighbor's POS speed racer wannabe 1995 honda civic from his side yard last week. It had no windows in it and a screw driver as a key. Usually theft isn't a big prob where I live. Part of it is that police response time is 1/2 an hour to sometime tomorrow. People tend to handle things directly and maybe call the police afterward.
I really like this idea but I know I'll do it then forget about it and spend an hour trying to figure out why the truck won't start. Maybe I'll leave myself a note...

X2 on getting the pictures up again. I'd really like to see this.

working on it, sorry for the delay,
pics were accidentally deleted.

Here are the pics, perhaps an administrator could put them back in the right spot in the sticky.

Here was pic # 1
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...m/rsz_1pin.jpg

Here is Pic # 2
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...kating_027.jpg

Pic # 3
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...kating_029.jpg