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Starter kill switch?

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  • Start date Start date Dec 17, 2004
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Loco5.0

Dec 17, 2004
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If pep boys or Advance don't have one I will have to make one myself so
who has a write up on how to fab one up on a 87-93 5.0 car?
 
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What are you looking for one of those for? If you're looking to make your car unable to start there's lots of other ways... Like there's a little connection under the driver's seat, if you unplug that, the car won't start. Or you can simply shut off the fuel system with the button in the hatch area. ???
 
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86StangLX said:
What are you looking for one of those for? If you're looking to make your car unable to start there's lots of other ways... Like there's a little connection under the driver's seat, if you unplug that, the car won't start. Or you can simply shut off the fuel system with the button in the hatch area. ???
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Do you have a pic of the plug under the seat?
What button in the hatch?
I am picking up the car tomorrow so I don't know what you're talking about.
 
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Loco, I assume you're simply looking for a way to ensure that the car won't start when you don't want it to. (i.e. to protect against theft or whatever)
Yes, under the driver's seat there is a little square connection piece. I can't remember what it's called, but if you look under the seat you can't miss it. It's most likely held in place by a little bracket coming through the carpet. If you simply pull the square connection piece out of the receiver, the car will crank and crank and crank, but never fire. And you simply have to just plug it back in to get the car to start. I learned this while putting in my new interior.
As for the fuel shut off switch. It's located behind/underneath the paneling in the hatch. You have to take off the paneling as if you wanted to access the wiring to the tail lights. There's a little yellow (if my memory serves me correctly) button and you just push that, and it will disable the fuel pump. This too, will prevent the vehicle from starting until the button is pressed again.
Hope that helps.
 
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Loco5.0

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86StangLX said:
Loco, I assume you're simply looking for a way to ensure that the car won't start when you don't want it to. (i.e. to protect against theft or whatever)
Yes, under the driver's seat there is a little square connection piece. I can't remember what it's called, but if you look under the seat you can't miss it. It's most likely held in place by a little bracket coming through the carpet. If you simply pull the square connection piece out of the receiver, the car will crank and crank and crank, but never fire. And you simply have to just plug it back in to get the car to start. I learned this while putting in my new interior.
As for the fuel shut off switch. It's located behind/underneath the paneling in the hatch. You have to take off the paneling as if you wanted to access the wiring to the tail lights. There's a little yellow (if my memory serves me correctly) button and you just push that, and it will disable the fuel pump. This too, will prevent the vehicle from starting until the button is pressed again.
Hope that helps.
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Yes, that's what I want it for. I didn't want to have the PCM etc reset each time either so this is good info.

I assume that I can restore the fuel flow by pushing that button again?
 
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Yeah, just have to push the button again to restore the fuel.
 

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You can cut the pink wire with the black stripe (under the seat) and put a heavy on-off switch inline. You can also find the feed to the relay to make it engage (same one under the seat) and cut it and use a smaller lighter switch.

You can also trace the small wire back that goes to the starter soleniod and put a hidden switch in line with that.

If it were me, I would do this so I could undo it from the comfort of the drivers seat. And of course you can hook this into any car alarm with a starter kill option. It could be a starter or fuel pump kill.
 
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