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Subject:Re: best way to install a killer switch
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 31 May 2017 22:55:33 -0400

You could make a fuel pump relay with a "wired-OR" diode connection to a
pushbutton in the cockpit and alternator D+, so it would stay activated so
long as the alternator was charging.  That would also solve the problem of
neglecting to stop and check what's wrong when your belt breaks and trashes
the cooling.

Yrs,
d

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:51 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
wrote:

> Parking valets must have just *loved* him. :)
>
> Yrs,
> d
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>      If I were to install a KILL switch I would make it so that you have
>> no
>> choice but to by Pass it every time you start the car. My son had a relay
>> wired that ungrounded the coil on one side and opened the fuel block valve
>> on the other side.
>>      So to start the car every time you had to put it in reverse to
>> trigger
>> the relay and pull the high beam dip switch. You could hand the keys to
>> the
>> car to someone and they could not start it. Between the electric fuel cut
>>
>

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