I want a diagram and write up of the alarm system. At home the truck is protected by 2 big Bullmasiffs, and Smith & Wesson security system. But what about the parking lots, or when I'm on a multi nite run, have to park way in the back of the motel with a 38' gooseneck. That's when I need better electronic protection.

 

Damn this stuff scares me.........I should prolly start locking my garage

I tell everyone if they get in a jam just go ahead and use my garage.........I have come home a few times to find people in there workin on a broke rig

 

I've never understood all the stories about people syphoning gas out through the filler neck either, due to the roll-over valve being such a good deterrent to syphon lines. If you got violent with a stick down there I guess you could knock the ball out... But I don't think anybody who's ever actually tried to syphon fuel out of the filler neck would bother with buying a locking gas cap.

 

I've been a firm believer in locking gas caps ever since high school in the 80's. In college I had someone break the metal locking gas cap apart on my 73 Ford F100 4x4 but never got in. I guess they weren't that hurting for fuel, then again it was only 75 cents a gallon back then. I should stop talking, I am aging myself...

But I do have the locking gas cap everywhere, and trust me when I say just about everything is not that hard to siphon. I have a cousin that slept in the crowbar motel for a while because of that. And because of him, we got very creative on the farm - even to the point of putting locks on our old Farmall tractors. Since he didn't run diesel, our Internationals were fine. But when we caught him trying, there was some "learning" involved on his part.

I guess the rumors of us rural farm folk are right, we can be a bit scary. We also protect our belongings with various thundersticks. I like my 44 mag. There is also the visual deterrance factor there when someone stops by and I am carrying that stainless beauty on my waist.

So even though we don't have everything garaged, good luck to the thieves. If they are lucky, the dogs will get them first.

 

Here in Germany, those scumbags of thieves drill a hole in the bottom of the tank and plug it with a screw afterwards. Sometimes they came several times to the same car. For that reason I mounted a thick skid plate below and around the tank.

 

wow

 

ive been sitting here reading this whole thing and was wondering why theives are so stupid? trust me im no theif and my truck got broken into last weekend and i was pissed but anyway while i was reading if i wanted to steal fuel i would do it to where i could do it more than once. but with that being said id love to catch someone trying to steal forom me again.

thats what i was thinking about doint just amking a real thick skid plate probably be a little harder that way

 

hmmmmm i think i got enough 1/4 inch stainless to enclose my tank from the bottom and sides plus my tank is metal so that helps

 

Man, last year out in the field, we had our compressor hauling rig parked on an empty lot. The truck had a full tank of about 40 gallons, and the saddle tank had about 250L in it....the guy stole every last drop out of both tanks and even took the cap from the saddle tank... I couldn't believe it, they took over $100 in fuel from us. I didn't realise it until I saw a big puddle under the tank and asked who didn't clean up and made such a mess, when I realised it wasn't any of our crew, the truck suddenly died. We spent the next 60 minutes priming an '82 Mack and driving the pickup to town to get more fuel. Such a waste.

 

1/4" stainless... be careful, they might try to steal the stainless plate instead.