Came out this morning to discover that the old Dodge parts truck
that had been sitting for years behind my shop was stolen.



Had my other vehicles keys out and locked up but the parts truck had keys in it.
Didn't think of taking the keys out of that one, didn't think they'd try for an obvious clunker, it didn't even have any brakes!
but obviously it fired right up and went on it's way.

My first thought was that it was swiped to harvest the diesel engine for somebody's swap.
Called the police and reported it, they called me back to say they found it in parked in town abandoned.

Looks like someone was trying to save on taxi money.
To keep this from happening again I disabled the truck by unplugging this wire from the battery feed.
Starter wont engage with this wire unplugged.



Connector can be loosened to break contact
and left slightly plugged together to appear as though
its not unplugged.

I should have had my "Engine Immobilizer" installed.... could have saved the $80.00 I had to pay to get it towed back home.
https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...-penny-309809/

 

Well glad you got it back! Like you said...it could have been stolen for a donor and never seen again.

If it's a parts truck just take a wheel off, or leave the rear section of the drive shaft unhooked from the diff.

 

WOW, risking getting shot to save taxi money!

There are stupid people out there.

 

I just wish my parts trucks looked that good! , wouldnt take much to have that shinning like a dime

 

The over the windshield roof rot looks pretty bad on the old girl.

 

Nothin' a strip of EternaBond or 3M SuperTape can't deal with.

 

They have guns in Canada ?

 

How else to they get all that moose meat?

 

Must have been kids.

 

They don't let us own anything other than pellet guns in Canada

 

Well in my neck of the woods almost every house on my road, even the hippies with the organic veggie farm, has 3-4 hunting rifles, shotguns, ETC.
Heck half the pick up trucks on the road have rifles in the back window.

Makes the thieves think twice I would assume.

 

Great outcome for as bad as it could have been. I put a simple single pole on off switch between the fss and ground and hid it in a readily accessible but hard to find place. I even camouflaged the wire at the fss to come out of the harness and appear factory. Some one has to be real sharp to catch it. Simple and cheap and you don't have to open the hood, let me know if you want a pic...Mark

 

I guess you Canadians are so polite they figure (wrongly) that you don't need guns.
Nothing like a soft target for bad guys.
I would be building a 40 cal pellet gun with a Co2 tank for propellant!

 

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