push-button style switch hidden under the carpeting of the pedestal
near the seatbelt buckle?
That's where I'd put one if I were to do it.
Sudhir

On 4/23/07, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg Potts typed:
>
> >
> > Apparently the advent of so-called smart keys simply pushed the car
> > theives into doing a B+E to get the key. They break into your house,
> > steal your keys and then drive away quietly. It didn't lessen the
> > theft rate at all, it just put the owners at higher risk of personal
> > injury.
>
> And biometric locks, e.g. fingerprint readers, have resulted in at least
> one case of thieves cutting off the owner's finger to start the car.
>
> I like the fuel pump kill switch idea. I think I'll put one in. I reckon
> it should be mounted in a discreet location, one that the driver can
> reach without drawing attention before opening the door to get out, and
> one that is easily accessible without having to get into the van if the
> pump needs to be killed for whatever reason. (This wheel has probably
> been invented before, many times, but anyway it's Monday and I'm tap
> dancing here to avoid going to work.) I'm thinking that the pump's
> ground wire would be pretty easy to use: use the switch to ground it to
> any handy nearby good ground. Where's a discreet switch location that's
> easy to fish a wire to?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
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