Battery disconnect

[mobileortho]

Anyone have any creative ideas for hiding one inside the cab?

[Matt_50]

Watsons-streetworks.com has a kit I want unless someone has a better option.

Magnetic relay. Hide it behind dash or something. Run your keychain magnet over it to turn on or off.

[Killer Bee]

theft prevention or driver's convenience?

how hidden? as in where do you want the switch?

[mobileortho]

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

theft prevention or driver's convenience?

how hidden? as in where do you want the switch?

A bit of both, I'll be killing two birds with one stone. But primarily to prevent battery drainage and I'd rather not have raise the hood. I see lots of options but wanted to see something creative. someone may have come up with.

[mr48chev]

I bought a truck one time that had a manual tank swap switch under the seat that you had to reach under the seat to change tanks. They had removed the spare tank out of the bed and plugged the fitting to the valve before I got the truck but someone had switched the valve over to a position where the fuel from the stock tank behind the sea didn't flow. Took me a day and a half to track that one down and to the "Oh @#$" and laugh a bit.

I don't much like an electric actuated switch as you still have to have power in the system or a secondary system to have it work. manual switches like some of these https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Searc...ion%20Switches That are normally used on race cars would work if they were hidden and it shouldn't be that hard to figure out a way to operate one with a push/pull cable. Push or pull a know on or under the cash to engage the switch or disengage it and you have a hidden setup that you can operate with someone in the seat beside you not really catching on most of the time. Pull the cable just before hitting the switch or have it over to the drivers side where you pull or push it with your left hand and no one even pays attention to what you did. Switch could be mounted on the firewall with the contacts on the outside and the lever on the inside with a small box over the connections on the outside where a cable ran in and out but wasn't much noticeable.

[ptc]

I installed mine thru the floor at the back of the passenger seat just within arms reach when Im sitting in the drivers seat. My battery is under the front bed on the passenger side too so the cables are short.

Dont put any labels on it and nobody will know the difference.

But they wont be able to do anything with the power off.

[fourspeedwagon]

The magnet switch is interesting. On my GMC, it’s mounted on the seat riser, battery is in original under floor location so it’s a short run.

[mr48chev]

Originally Posted by ptc

Dont put any labels on it and nobody will know the difference.

But they wont be able to do anything with the power off.

There you go folks, that is the whole idea. Keep it simple, keep what ever you need to switch within easy reach were you can either switch it as you get in the truck or just before you go to start the truck. If the guys riding with you don't notice that you turned on the power to the truck you nailed it.

I'm not so sure about the magnetic or under the seat switches, They work great on your riding lawn mower when you don't want your toes around moving blades stepping on or off a running mower but might be a pain where you want to have the truck run while stepping out of it to check something.

If you do this you could rig a low amp feed to the radio/head unit that bypasses the rest of the system if needed. That would keep you from having to reprogram the head unit too many times.

[mobileortho]

Originally Posted by ptc

I installed mine thru the floor at the back of the passenger seat just within arms reach when Im sitting in the drivers seat. My battery is under the front bed on the passenger side too so the cables are short.

Dont put any labels on it and nobody will know the difference.

But they wont be able to do anything with the power off.

Great idea! Now I know what to do with the hole in the floor left from relocating the gas tank! I had a plug in it but a switch may work out great!

[MARTINSR]

As an interesting anti theft device, in my Gran Sport I put ran a wire so that when you push in the cig lighter it grounded the distributor. Now it can't even be "hot wired" nothing will allow the motor to start with that dist grounded.

Brian

[mongocanfly]

^^^^slick ideas^^^^

[cameo]

These trucks have all sorts of nice buttons and knobs that could be used. If you have converted to an electric choke, rig up the original knob to operate an ignition kill switch.
I had an 0 Blazer that had a 4-spd manual. I popped the switch out and let it hang under the dash. I made a short jumper wire that replaced the switches button, and just pulled it out and dropped it in the cup holder when I left my truck. No start. just don't forget to push the clutch when you start it...you only do that once.

[capnduane]

I put in a little panel under the hood with remote starter switch and battery cut off with key. Handy when working on engine to turn it over and also to kill electrical system when working on it and for anti theft when parked for more than a little while. Also have a hidden switch in the coil primary wire in the cab for when going into the market or eatery, and I don't want to open the hood.