mwye0627
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Barney is always right. I have seen this behavior in other posts. No point to argue with him. He does have a lot of valuable information, but he has a definite opinion. Go easy on him, someday I might be like that. A lot of the regular posters on the site know it.
Thanks for contributing,
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Agreed... I looked in to some of the many forums he has been banned from and their experiences are similar and in some cases even worse. A few years back he registered on a Ford truck diesel engine forum after he had bought an f-250 at an auction. Barney entered the forum admitting that he knew nothing about diesels and especially nothing about computer controlled engines, period. It took less than one day for him to seriously piss off the lead moderator and most experienced person on that forum. The expert read Barney's description of his vehicle's symptom and gave him a a likely fix, which many other members agreed that it was a common problem and relatively simple fix. Barney wanted to argue with the experts and kept asserting his 45 year experience working in the automotive field. After 2 days it got to the point where NO members would even respond to him. Perhaps that's what I should do - Just ignore him. But when he is determined to assert himself as the Global Expert of ALL Things, even when presented with definitive information from the engineers and manufacturers of the systems in question, as an Engineer myself, it has a tendency to set me off... If I have to be faced with much more of the ignorance that accompanies even his helpful posts, I will just resign from this forum. This is STILL the best forum for '69 and '70 Mustangs, but other forums have banned Barney, and for that they are better for me.
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Hey Mike,
Hope all is well with you. Will you let me know how you installed a switch into the cigarette lighter please? I plan to use it for the coil to distributor wire on my oem points ignition to keep bad guys from starting the car. I've disassemble the center console lighter on the front side of the glove box. Any advice is appreciated.
Bob
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Hi Bob...
I used the cigarette lighter trick in the 1991 GM Dually we used to haul our old Pro Mod s-10 with...
Basically, I used an inexpensive normally open Radio Shack momentary switch ( Catalog #: 2751547 )
drilled and mounted into the bottom of the cigarette lighter housing... When the lighter was pushed in, it would close the switch. The switch would then activate a standard Cube Type automotive relay, which would then allow the Starter Wire (Purple wire on GM) to engage the starter when commanded...
On a Ford, the relay could be used to allow the power to the Coil to be cut or activated, or the wire from the points to the coil, or the power for an electric fuel pump... Many different ways to disable the vehicle depending on how it is configured...
In my current project, since I am using EFI, I will be using an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) circuit to disable the ECU unless the RFID dongle is within range....
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