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10/13/02*

 
How to Wire a dead short to save your buggy

If a thief wants to steal your VW, then he probably will. But the harder it is and the longer it takes, just might convince him to look elsewhere.
  Any thief with a short jumper wire and a screwdriver can drive off with your buggy in about 30 seconds. This is a simple system we use on our street buggy's.

  First you must install a circuit breaker #D71116 after the Key (or On/Off switch).#V903105
Then from the hot side of the coil (#15 or +) connect a new wire from the coil to one side of  a simple on/off switch. The other side of this switch is connected to ground. That's it your done.

  Now if  the would be thief connects his jumper wire to the coil and a hot wire. He creates a dead short and most likely melts his jumper wire and burns his fingers. Before he can try again he must figure out which one of the wires is shorted and disconnect it. Which wire goes to the distributor and reconnect it. This all takes time, so more then likely he will move on to easer Pickens.

  When you want to start your car, you must remember to flip the hidden switch. If you forget the circuit breaker will pop and then after flipping the hidden switch, just turn the key off and back on to reset the circuit breaker.

  We some times change the wiring slightly. Instead of our new wire going to ground, we connect it to a hidden horn. The switch is left on and when the jumper wire is used it blows the horn until disconnected. You could use both systems if you so desire.

We have one customer that wired  the new shorted wire inside his distributor. But we have not tried this out yet.

 If you have a better system let us know.

(Something less the chaining it to a telephone pole.)

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