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

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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 08:18 AM
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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...



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



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

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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 08:49 AM
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Necessity is the mother of invention.

Poverty, of course, is the father.

That's downright brilliant.
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by j_martin
Necessity is the mother of invention.

Poverty, of course, is the father.

That's downright brilliant.
Yep, 10 thumbs up!
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 11:55 AM
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Maybe you meant a 4" nail???
1+2+1=4!!!

Just ribbing you!
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 12:32 PM
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That is so cool....
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 01:30 PM
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Cheap, easy and effective, that's my kind of mod.
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 01:55 PM
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excellent

the truck would start but wouldn't go far...
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 03:44 PM
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Mine won't start with the fuel shut off pulled back.
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by 1STGENFARMBOY
Mine won't start with the fuel shut off pulled back.
Mine won't either.
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 05:35 PM
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Stuck!
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 05:41 PM
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Brilliant !


You guys brought us RUSH, and now this ? I wish I was born in Canada, as I'd be smart too !
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 06:29 PM
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Brilliant !


You guys brought us RUSH, and now this ? I wish I was born in Canada, as I'd be smart too !
I wish I was born American so I could have been in the USAF!
Especially Strategic Air Command in the 60's
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 07:35 PM
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That's ingenuity at it's finest.
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Old Jan 30, 2013 | 10:14 PM
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Well Done!!

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.
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Old Jan 31, 2013 | 07:03 AM
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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.

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.
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