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Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:00 pm

This bus has a modified ebrake lever allows you to pull ebrake,
put bus in 1st or 3rd gear, and padlock it together!!!.
Ha Ha!!!!

Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:02 pm

Clara wrote:

This bus has a modified ebrake lever allows you to pull ebrake,
put bus in 1st or 3rd gear, and padlock it together!!!.
Ha Ha!!!!
I want that!

Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:01 am

Take a giant dump on your seat every night!

Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:45 pm

i have thought about making custom connectors on both sides of a removable fuse box, and/or another from the body to the engine.(hidden behind the engine) I could be bypassed but it would take some time.

Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:56 pm

swervyjoe wrote: wow, thats intense. none of my locks work and i leave the keys in it half the time.

Yeah, me too. There are some nice things about the southeast.
All the rednecks here would want them for is for the trans to put in a buggy. I love the looks on their faces when they ask and I tell them it doesn't have a Bus trans in it anymore :lol:

Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:21 am

VWAdam wrote: swervyjoe wrote: wow, thats intense. none of my locks work and i leave the keys in it half the time.

Yeah, me too. There are some nice things about the southeast.
All the rednecks here would want them for is for the trans to put in a buggy. I love the looks on their faces when they ask and I tell them it doesn't have a Bus trans in it anymore :lol:

Haha this is the same reason its so freaking hard to get a bus off them. I tried to get one off a guy with NO transaxle and he still wont get rid of it cuz he doesn't have a shed to put the stuff stored in it. (bus is pretty gone anyways )

Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:33 am

Get full coverage insurance with a good insurance company. I stated value on my bus thru the insurance company and it was agreed value. A little bit more than i have into it.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:41 am

Park it in Oklahoma.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:59 am

Met a guy with really nice 21window. Its normally parked inside and only driven on certain occasions. Since he lives in a Big city he is more concerned with getting car jacked at gunpoint than having his ride vandalized. he hooked up some sort of cutoff between his gas tank and carbs through the high beam switch on the floor. that way if anything goes down he can kick the switch and get out of his ride safely and the bus only gets about 300 feet away.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:45 pm

batmanuel wrote: Met a guy with really nice 21window. Its normally parked inside and only driven on certain occasions. Since he lives in a Big city he is more concerned with getting car jacked at gunpoint than having his ride vandalized. he hooked up some sort of cutoff between his gas tank and carbs through the high beam switch on the floor. that way if anything goes down he can kick the switch and get out of his ride safely and the bus only gets about 300 feet away.
And now the thieves that read this will know about it. :wink:

Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:53 pm

ya know i thought about that, and is why i did not mention what city he was in... who knows he may live in North Carolina :wink:

Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:19 pm

Riff Raff wrote: I have gone one step further and built a false coil wire out of vacuum tube. It looks just like the real coil wire I have in my pocket if I'm concerned about theft.

I really like this idea, never occurred to me.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:43 pm

Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:07 pm

Logically, this is better than most of the other solutions I've seen. It'd slow the professionals down and stop the amateurs cold. It needs some sort of "remove before driving" indicator on the steering wheel, though.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:34 pm

woodslat wrote: Riff Raff wrote: I have gone one step further and built a false coil wire out of vacuum tube. It looks just like the real coil wire I have in my pocket if I'm concerned about theft.

I really like this idea, never occurred to me.
Be careful with that.
It can sometimes still run even with a vacuum tube in place there.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:22 pm

vwdrue wrote:

Thanks for my biggest laugh of the day!

Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:43 pm

suebug wrote: vwdrue wrote:

Thanks for my biggest laugh of the day!
your welcome!

Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:59 am

Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:29 am

vwdrue wrote:

Mmmm, Snacks!

Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:45 pm

That would be a bully in a bulli....