Electrical knife switch please help

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Mar 13, 2015 | 10:18 AM

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With PATS it's going to be nearly impossible for the average crook to start your truck.

OP's truck is a '97 (correct?) No chipped keys or PATS for the model year, IIRC.

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Mar 13, 2015 | 10:30 AM

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Lol. Cool Story brah.

How did your battery knife switch work?

Mar 13, 2015 | 10:31 AM

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OP's truck is a '97 (correct?) No chipped keys or PATS for the model year, IIRC.

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Yea I didn't realize he had the 97.

Mar 13, 2015 | 10:31 AM

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you need to move to a little ranch in the middle of a corn field in Kansas. You'll never have these problems, you can leave the windows down and unlocked on a nice night.

id probably enjoy that life style more lol but my job keeps me near big cities I work on industrial size boilers I'm a service tech on massive steam boilers mostly in sky scrappers

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Mar 13, 2015 | 10:32 AM

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my insurance already bought my truck for more than I paid for it. Paid 3 grand and spent about $600 to lift it. Drunk ran into it and they called it a total. Offered me 5k for it to junk it or they'd give me 4k and I could keep it. Went to eBay and got a new bumper for $120, lower valance for $40 and a new grill for $40. $200 and she's better than she was before the wreck and I have 4 grand it my pocket.

nice

Mar 13, 2015 | 10:33 AM

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OP's truck is a '97 (correct?) No chipped keys or PATS for the model year, IIRC. MGD

no chips I can have a key made for 2 bucks at the local hardware store and that's how I like it lol

Mar 13, 2015 | 10:34 AM

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Yea I didn't realize he had the 97.

haven't installed it yet someone told me a bunch of nonsense that it was bad for the computer so I was making sure it wasn't true before I installed it but I'll let u know how it works out

Mar 13, 2015 | 10:39 AM

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My connections were oxidizing tried to clean them up but they needed to be replaced so I bout the negative knife switch and a power distribution block with voltage display for the positive side. Let's see how long it works for

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Mar 13, 2015 | 11:18 AM

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97/98 has a early version of PATS. I for one wouldnt use a knife switch. I have a hidden switch that controls the ground for the PCM relay. Much easier and more effective. If they break in a notice the vehicle has no power they just have to pop the hood. Where as with disabling the pcm they wont be able to go any where.