Shadrach

Someone attempted to steal my M35a2 in the last few days. It was parked at my fathers house. Since he was at the VA monday and home all day sunday I figure the attempt was made sometime during the day monday. The steering wheel is badly broken. To add insult to injury they also slashed the drivers side front tire. I have a spare tire but, no spare steering wheel. If anyone knows of a good source for one please let me know.

paradeduty

D--n - really sorry to hear that. At least they didn't get the truck. I've been there - big sinking pit in your gut feeling. I guess consider it a warning and do the best you can to "secure" the truck. I don't know if an alarm is possible, maybe at least a kill switch, or I guess have to break down and find new storage. This too shall pass. Take care. Dave

roady

That stinks. I am sure someone here will chime in with a steering wheel for you. This site is full of good people helping each other out. If I had one it would be yours.

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TexAndy

I've got a steering wheel for an old REO you can have for the price of shipping. PM me.

66Reo6X6

What ever happened to people respecting each others private property? Sure says a lot about some dosen't it. Sad but true.

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Nonotagain

The local police frown upon hanging thieves.

Hang a few car thieves and thefts would come to a stop, ASAP.

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ALFA2

Shadrach, sorry to hear about your truck, but you can do several things to prevent followup of the same. Unnecessary damage usually indicates that someone had the time to cause it, and was not concerned for the consequences of it. This is usually someone who underestimated the truck, and were unhappy that they could not get it, so the tire damage is to get back at you.

To deal with this issue, you need to know who is so brave there, and to do that, you need to see them. Fry electronics carried a set up of wireless infrared cameras, some with sound some without, all the parts together composed a kit that you can hook up to a wireless internet, to go straight to you computer's hard drive. A large hard drive can have live uninterrupted 48 Hours of full motion video of your truck, or much much longer if it is motion sensor activated... Price I remember was $ 178.00 - 240.00 depending on all of the features included, 3years ago. I believe they also have a motion detector feature built in as an option. With this set up, you will get a good look at you Problem, while it takes place, and you will know exactly who to talk to. If you are so inclined police in most states will accept security camera footage identifying the Individual as proof felony, if you choose to have that prosecuted. If not, at least you can get a police report with the video, for insurance or other uses. In the past One camera in the cab and 3 from different outside angles have proven very effective, since the new cameras are very sharp and clean, and show enough detail to see and Identify faces at 20+ feet at night. Day pictures are U tube quality or close enough. Take a look, if fry's electronics is not price friendly or not enough quality for your application, look on the web for similar items. Good luck with your repairs.

Hope it helps.

ALFA2

ARYankee

Hey Shad,
Sorry to hear about that. That is really messed up. I'm over here in Memphis, I could check Memphis Equipment and see what one will run you. All you have to do is pay for the steering wheel, no charge for shipping and handling. I could probably meet you some where this weekend to give it to you. Just let me know.

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firefox

I took a piece of 1/8" x1" aluminum flat I had laying around and cut off a couple of inches.
Then I bent it around the shaft of the throttle stop
in the form of a "U" so that I could slip it onto the shaft easily. IE to prevent it from being pushed in.
Then I drilled a hole through the ends of the flat
so that I could put a small padalock through holes,
thus preventing it from being removed.

I was also lucky that a chain was installed so that I could lock the steering wheel.

These are not foolproof, but will help to slow people down.

Bruce

spitfire_pilot

Battery switch or in line fuel cut off valve will foil just about anyone.