Gentlemen, quick question about an easy quick, but clever way to disconnect the starting system. My neighborhood has recently been infested with yo-yo meth-heads from a nearby homeless camp who like to break into cars to steal things inside or take the whole car. They are not sophisticated criminals whatsoever and generally have been using skeleton keys and screwdrivers to take cars. They have been stealing cats on my block as well. I have a Club on the truck, though it appears someone unsuccessfully tried to pry the door lock open last night on my truck/camper setup. It's a 1999 C2500 2Wd (see pic).
When I lived in the Bronx years ago I used to disconnect the distributer coil wire from my El Camino and take it with me, replacing it with a non-working coil wire (took out the metal wire inside). It took a minute to do and made it difficult for a thief to figure out what was wrong in only a few minutes. I'm looking for a similar tactic here as the yo-yo thieves in my neighborhood would be even less inclined to figure it out and likely wouldn't even pop the hood; they would just move on.
The problem is that the distributor on my 5.7 liter motor is way under the firewall; the motor is quite recessed towards the back. Popping the coil wire is not an easy task with this truck. I do not want to put a cutoff switch anywhere.
Anyone have an ideas? Starter relay wire? A Fuse, perhaps? Something simple, fast, and clever. But please don't write "move" or "shoot them", etc. as I've already considered and dispatched with those ideas (lol!). Thanks in advance for any and all ideas. P
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