While your ideas are certainly creative, why not just go out and buy a
burglar alarm for 69 dollars that not only screams like a banshee, but has a
30 second ignition kill on it like mine does? Car runs for 30 seconds then
is dead dead dead unless you have the remote to disarm it, or know where the
reset button is.
Courtney

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Smith" <budgetzagato@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: security ideas

> Hi all,
> The recent question about anti-theft options got me
> thinking too.
>
> In addition to a valve in the fuel supply, manual or
> not, I thought of another way.
>
> The really, really important electric fuel pump is
> powered via a relay, so why not install a simple
> toggle switch (could even use a factory switch if
> you've got room in your gauge binnacle) in a new relay
> ground run to the front of the vehicle?  One could run
> the wire from a connection in the relay set box,
> parallel the harness to the front and then ground it
> after the switch, essentially a one-wire install.  Use
> a fat one if you're worried about voltage drop.  By
> making the connection in the relay set box, it could
> always be reversed if needed.
>
> One could also install a switch in the fused power to
> the pump near the fuse box if you had a limited supply
> of wire.  Switching the ground seems safer though.
>
> Gregory Smith
> '84 Vanagon
> Olympia, WA
>
>
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