Simple Way to Disable Starting System

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Westieterrier

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Gentlemen, quick question about an easy quick, but clever way to disconnect the starting system. My neighborhood has recently been infested with yo-yo meth-heads from a nearby homeless camp who like to break into cars to steal things inside or take the whole car. They are not sophisticated criminals whatsoever and generally have been using skeleton keys and screwdrivers to take cars. They have been stealing cats on my block as well. I have a Club on the truck, though it appears someone unsuccessfully tried to pry the door lock open last night on my truck/camper setup. It's a 1999 C2500 2Wd (see pic).

When I lived in the Bronx years ago I used to disconnect the distributer coil wire from my El Camino and take it with me, replacing it with a non-working coil wire (took out the metal wire inside). It took a minute to do and made it difficult for a thief to figure out what was wrong in only a few minutes. I'm looking for a similar tactic here as the yo-yo thieves in my neighborhood would be even less inclined to figure it out and likely wouldn't even pop the hood; they would just move on.

The problem is that the distributor on my 5.7 liter motor is way under the firewall; the motor is quite recessed towards the back. Popping the coil wire is not an easy task with this truck. I do not want to put a cutoff switch anywhere.

Anyone have an ideas? Starter relay wire? A Fuse, perhaps? Something simple, fast, and clever. But please don't write "move" or "shoot them", etc. as I've already considered and dispatched with those ideas (lol!). Thanks in advance for any and all ideas. P
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Carlaisle

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Use a factory appearing switch on the dash so that it won't appear out of place and have it control a relay for the fuel pump, coil, starter, whatever floats your boat. You have a truck, maybe install an HVAC control head with the defrost control on it and have that switch control your relay of choice.
 

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I keep an OEM relay with the two pins removed, to swap out with the starter relay (looks like normal in the fuse box), also have a hidden switch tied into the clutch safety under the dash (for manual trans). Now of coarse if they can stick drive and push the truck 5 Knots it will start. LOL
 

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Now of coarse if they can stick drive and push the truck 5 Knots it will start. LOL
Not with today's automatic transmissions, a manual trans is a different story. When I was working part time at a service station in the 70's we tried it with an auto trans, got it up to 35 MPH and it still wouldn't turn over, ha ha.
 

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Not with today's automatic transmissions, a manual trans is a different story. When I was working part time at a service station in the 70's we tried it with an auto trans, got it up to 35 MPH and it still wouldn't turn over, ha ha.
Yea. I believe that was early powerglides that you could roll start
 
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