i found the yellow/red tracer wire for the clutch jumper. its hard to see, mounted to metal bracket using a plastic push plug and hiding behind a huge connector of wires.

i was looking for a good place to put the secret toggle switch, but didn't find one yet. i'll look some more tomorrow.

in the meantime, if someone steals my truck, i hope they replace the dash cause it really looks like ****.

that's an idea - i could put the secret switch down inside the big craters in the dash....

 

How about up in the overhead console?

 

you could get really fancy and wire it into those push bulb reading lamps, then it would be stealthy and stock. That circuit runs directly off the battery, and the light being on or off will remind you that you have the circuit open or closed.

 

nice idea, but no good for me.
the truck is a plain jane ST. no overhead console, no reading lamps.

a slide or rocker might mount in the bottom of the dash trim, near the gas pedal and beside the posilok cable. or maybe on an added bracket under the steering wheel where there's nothing but air now.

rocker
http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-ro...itches/=ieu4kn

slide is smaller 1/2 x 1/4
http://www.mcmaster.com/#maintained-...itches/=ieu629

 

Underneath a fender well always works well.

 

What about something like this? A battery disconnect switch, (doesnt have to be used directly with the battery I guess). Its got a physical key you need to put in the slot to complete the circuit.


http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HLA-002843011/

 

Sounds like I'm a little late.

There are RFID circuits that have a passive element that could be carried on a key chain. The idea being that when the element is not within range some major circuit gets interrupted and disables the vehicle.

I think this kind of thing would be pretty mysterious to most crooks especially if it wasn't some mass produced product they had time to learn about and the installation was creative enough. Of course there is still the problem of having it tied to the key chain which can get lost. Of course you could get the RFID chip embedded in your body somewhere.

 

i thought about a wireless switch that could be hidden, and then activated by a key fob.

but, i discarded the idea in favor of a simple mechanical switch for several reasons.
i might lose the key fob.
i'd have to put a spare key fob in with every 'spare key" (wife, kids, spare, etc).
the wireless switch would need power and it'd be something else that could go wrong. the fob would need a battery, and again be something else to go wrong.
expense of several key fobs.

 

True it would still be easy to lose. There are forms of this concept which wouldn't require any power storage at the keychain however.

Some forms of RFID use a passive remote element...require no power, and an active element which requires power. The passive element are really just tiny antennas/filters which recieve some radiated power signature from the central transciever decode and re-radiate a portion of the original signal which is unique and identifiable by the transciever. The active element would be the tranciever mounted somewhere to the truck. One nice thing about this version is the passive remote element works completely off the power transmitted by the central device. The range and thus power needed can be relatively small since the transciever only needs to sense the passive element while it's holder is near enough to the transciever to use the vehicle.

Not arguing, just conceptualizing for fun.

Edit: Oh wait I guess I did solve the losing it part in my earlier post. Just get the passive element embedded into the approved users. Haha!

 

what about a magnetic reed switch glued to steering column? you could keep the magnet higher up until you needed it and then just slide it down