Learn how to install a battery cut-off switch that kills the engine and all electrical power to-and-from the battery. I also show you how to crimp battery cables using a hand crimper, hammer crimper, and hydraulic crimper, so you will learn each method and how to get perfect crimps.
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0:00 Intro
1:32 Tools and Products
5:40 Wiring Diagram
6:19 How a Kill Switch Works
11:20 How to Crimp Battery Cables
19:50 Easy Way to Add Split Wire Loom Tubing
20:29 Installing the Battery Cables
24:10 Organizing the Wiring
26:12 ECU Cut Off Wiring
31:54 Kill Switch Panel Fabrication
37:47 Panel Installation
39:20 Testing the Kill Switch
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Where is the fire suppression system video
Why would you have to cut power too your alternator when the fuse box is what supplies power to the ECU and the rest of your components? The car would cut off anyways with the alternator going with it.
So a kill switch is a drastic measure that's even riskier if you have a tune? Maybe make a vid on how to program a button that loads a pre-made tune onto the ecu? 😀
14:37 that lug is soldered.
Those things are useless nowadays with modern cars
ok good but how do you instal a kill switch on a car that doest use a car key to turn on?
So it’s basically like an ATV Killswitch?
pov u lost your kill swihtc key
Next how to install killswitch on old diesel vehicles, I don't have any but I think some people might need it.
I've seen a few runaway diesel in person and it was pretty scary, I can imagine how those driver feel when they saw the engine roaring even if the ignition isn't even turned on
Personally if I had a track car I would put a kill switch on both sides of the car so if there was a rollover you could access a kill switch no matter what side the car was on
I sometimes think I know all there is to know about a subject when I get an introduction to something 😂
I cannot believe how much I learned, watching this video, especially things about crimping tools, and how to test a crimp and also understanding about the alternator and ECU power and resistor.
I learned about
1.terminal end identification markings
2. 3 types of crimping tools and why
3. What a good and bad crimp looks like inside
And much more!
Thanks Chris for the next level of my continuing education.
The thieves watching this video
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If connecting both leads to same point at each side of switch, why run 4 cables instead of 2?
The only way I prevent my truck from being stolen is locking the doors and the car alarm
Scp do you have a house😅
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A less invasive option is yoink that fuel pump relay out and it aint going nowhere
One critique for this video: If you install the alternator positive on the same post as the fuse block, your engine will not kill as the alternator will keep it alive. You should have the alternator cable ran to the same post as the battery positive thus removing all sources of power from the engine and fuel system in the event of an emergency. Otherwise great video!
chris: says he is gonna use a hand crimper
also chris: ends up using the hydraulic crimper
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Is there a video on the fire suppression system 40:37
But what if the relay gets basically stuck 26:40
Those are the types of cutters that I would use The front goes into a smaller gap and also the blades overlap at the end 9:10 and by end I mean when they closed 9:10
Why does the computer have to be shut off separately 6:00
I assume that’s 10 W as in 10 W rated because of the length and also the fact that it’s one of those concrete embedded resistors 3:59
Chris Fixx has been a teaching tool in our high school Auto Tech I & II for several years now. Young students tend to listen to a young sounding voice. Especially when the in class instructor is 67.
Would this be the same process for a 96 Buick Century? I have a feeling I've stumbled across the incorrect application video
Battery kill switch is SUPER DUPER USEFUL for a car thanks on showing us how to install one 😃
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I wouldve painted all the bolts that would be visible as well, just for an even cleaner look
I love how he says “good!” After doing something like your following along right next to him!
If I just want a kill switch on a vehicle i dont drive everyday and is not a track car/race car, and all I want to do is just kill the power from the battery can I just use a simple 2 pole switch on the positive wire?
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BRO WASTED 4 TERMINAL END CONNECTORS JUST TO SHOW US HOW THE 3 TYPES OF CRIMPERS WORK
RESPECT 🫡 👍♥💯
Can you install the kill switch on the neutral (black) cable? Since I don’t have any regulations I think it will be simpler
I have Toyotan razie
I love these videos ❤❤❤
all criminal taking notes😂
Id love to use bosch machines
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