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Heavy Duty Transmission Cooler? Simple Alarm Systems?
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill > >switch, to prevent theft? > well, about the simplest it gets is putting a switch in the ignition wire > coming off the ignition from your steering wheel. Costs about $2 (the price > of a switch) >Here’s what I did: >Put the switch on your electric fuel pump. There’s probably a fuse >that you can tap into under your hood. This way, when someone tries to >hot wire your car, the starter will turn, but the engine will never >catch. Should confuse them enough that they’ll leave. >The idea is to make your vehicle an unlikely target. If someone REALLY >wants your car, they’re going to get it. But usually, they’re just >going to go after the easiest car to steal. So buy a club and hide a >simple kill switch somewhere on the vehicle (behind the grill, where you >can stealthily flick it as you walk by is good), and you’ll be a lot >better off than you are now. >Or you can buy a $150 alarm. >– >Brad M. Garcia A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. > ____/ _ _ / / / > / /_/ / / / >_____/ _/ _/ _____/
I agree, a kill switch is a good deterant. Instead, I went out and bought two alarms , nothing fancey, just a unit that blast out about 100 or more db’s, for $38.00 each, on QVC. Hey, it took me a whole 45 mins to hook it up, and has a sensitivity level on the remote. But then again, there are so many car alarms going off in malls, no one pays any attention these days. So that is why I would have the two, both a kill switch and a cheap alarm, such as the one I purchased. cer
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> >Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill >switch, to prevent theft? > well, about the simplest it gets is putting a switch in the ignition wire > coming off the ignition from your steering wheel. Costs about $2 (the price > of a switch)
Here’s what I did: Put the switch on your electric fuel pump. There’s probably a fuse that you can tap into under your hood. This way, when someone tries to hot wire your car, the starter will turn, but the engine will never catch. Should confuse them enough that they’ll leave. The idea is to make your vehicle an unlikely target. If someone REALLY wants your car, they’re going to get it. But usually, they’re just going to go after the easiest car to steal. So buy a club and hide a simple kill switch somewhere on the vehicle (behind the grill, where you can stealthily flick it as you walk by is good), and you’ll be a lot better off than you are now. Or you can buy a $150 alarm. — Brad M. Garcia A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. ____/ _ _ / / / / /_/ / / / _____/ _/ _/ _____/
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>Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill >switch, to prevent theft?
well, about the simplest it gets is putting a switch in the ignition wire coming off the ignition from your steering wheel. Costs about $2 (the price of a switch) Seriously though, a decent alarm system costs about $150 American (probably less than that) and will do a lot more for you, PLUS have a starter kill circuit. Good luck Chris
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>The a/c condensor looks like another radiator and has about the same frontal >area. It is, I think, mounted in front of the radiator.
For the ‘92 Grand Voyager, this is how the radiators are mounted . . . The a/c condensor is the large thin radiator look-a-like but it is mounted basically beside the radiator NOT in front (it is slightly offset towards the front when looking from the top). The smaller radiator is the transmission cooler and it is mounted directly in front of the radiator.
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>>How can I tell if I have a heavy duty transmission cooler on my 3.3 four >speed transmission (Voyager SE with A/C)? There are two lines coming from >Transmission and a thin large rad in addition to regular rad.
Do the trans lines go into this "large thin radiator?" Follow the lines from this "radiator" and you can determine what it is. >The heavy duty transmission cooler is a small radiator mounted directly in >front >of the main radiator. You can see it by looking from the top or through the >front grille.
The a/c condensor looks like another radiator and has about the same frontal area. It is, I think, mounted in front of the radiator. A transmission cooler is much smaller than the radiator – typically a half foot by a foot. I’ve seen drawings of the factory equipped trans cooler, and it is mounted more or less in front of the center of the radiator/condensor package. If you don’t have a cooler and want to add on, its not very hard. Given the history of the CC 4 spd tranny, anything you can do to baby it seems like a good idea! Jason Douglas 93 GC
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How can I tell if I have a heavy duty transmission cooler on my 3.3 four speed transmission (Voyager SE with A/C)? There are two lines coming from Transmission and a thin large rad in addition to regular rad. Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill switch, to prevent theft? Thanks — Ross Howard CMA, B.Sc., B.Ed. | The Excel Group | |
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How can I tell if I have a heavy duty transmission cooler on my 3.3 four speed transmission (Voyager SE with A/C)? There are two lines coming from Transmission and a thin large rad in addition to regular rad. Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill switch, to prevent theft? Thanks — Ross Howard CMA, B.Sc., B.Ed. | The Excel Group | |
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>>How can I tell if I have a heavy duty transmission cooler on my 3.3 four >speed transmission (Voyager SE with A/C)? There are two lines coming from >Transmission and a thin large rad in addition to regular rad.
Do the trans lines go into this "large thin radiator?" Follow the lines from this "radiator" and you can determine what it is. >The heavy duty transmission cooler is a small radiator mounted directly in >front >of the main radiator. You can see it by looking from the top or through the >front grille.
The a/c condensor looks like another radiator and has about the same frontal area. It is, I think, mounted in front of the radiator. A transmission cooler is much smaller than the radiator – typically a half foot by a foot. I’ve seen drawings of the factory equipped trans cooler, and it is mounted more or less in front of the center of the radiator/condensor package. If you don’t have a cooler and want to add on, its not very hard. Given the history of the CC 4 spd tranny, anything you can do to baby it seems like a good idea! Jason Douglas 93 GC
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>The a/c condensor looks like another radiator and has about the same frontal >area. It is, I think, mounted in front of the radiator.
For the ‘92 Grand Voyager, this is how the radiators are mounted . . . The a/c condensor is the large thin radiator look-a-like but it is mounted basically beside the radiator NOT in front (it is slightly offset towards the front when looking from the top). The smaller radiator is the transmission cooler and it is mounted directly in front of the radiator.
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>Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill >switch, to prevent theft?
well, about the simplest it gets is putting a switch in the ignition wire coming off the ignition from your steering wheel. Costs about $2 (the price of a switch) Seriously though, a decent alarm system costs about $150 American (probably less than that) and will do a lot more for you, PLUS have a starter kill circuit. Good luck Chris
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> >Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill >switch, to prevent theft? > well, about the simplest it gets is putting a switch in the ignition wire > coming off the ignition from your steering wheel. Costs about $2 (the price > of a switch)
Here’s what I did: Put the switch on your electric fuel pump. There’s probably a fuse that you can tap into under your hood. This way, when someone tries to hot wire your car, the starter will turn, but the engine will never catch. Should confuse them enough that they’ll leave. The idea is to make your vehicle an unlikely target. If someone REALLY wants your car, they’re going to get it. But usually, they’re just going to go after the easiest car to steal. So buy a club and hide a simple kill switch somewhere on the vehicle (behind the grill, where you can stealthily flick it as you walk by is good), and you’ll be a lot better off than you are now. Or you can buy a $150 alarm. — Brad M. Garcia A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. ____/ _ _ / / / / /_/ / / / _____/ _/ _/ _____/
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >Does anyone know of a simple device I can put on my car, like a kill > >switch, to prevent theft? > well, about the simplest it gets is putting a switch in the ignition wire > coming off the ignition from your steering wheel. Costs about $2 (the price > of a switch) >Here’s what I did: >Put the switch on your electric fuel pump. There’s probably a fuse >that you can tap into under your hood. This way, when someone tries to >hot wire your car, the starter will turn, but the engine will never >catch. Should confuse them enough that they’ll leave. >The idea is to make your vehicle an unlikely target. If someone REALLY >wants your car, they’re going to get it. But usually, they’re just >going to go after the easiest car to steal. So buy a club and hide a >simple kill switch somewhere on the vehicle (behind the grill, where you >can stealthily flick it as you walk by is good), and you’ll be a lot >better off than you are now. >Or you can buy a $150 alarm. >– >Brad M. Garcia A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. > ____/ _ _ / / / > / /_/ / / / >_____/ _/ _/ _____/
I agree, a kill switch is a good deterant. Instead, I went out and bought two alarms , nothing fancey, just a unit that blast out about 100 or more db’s, for $38.00 each, on QVC. Hey, it took me a whole 45 mins to hook it up, and has a sensitivity level on the remote. But then again, there are so many car alarms going off in malls, no one pays any attention these days. So that is why I would have the two, both a kill switch and a cheap alarm, such as the one I purchased. cer