I've got an '88 4Runner, I finally got a chance to take the top off and put in a decent amount of work rigging up a nice soft top and a tonneau cover of sorts for the trunk area, and now I want to make sure she doesn't sprout legs and walk away.

I'm not too concerned, as she's spent much of her life in salt-covered winter roads and doesn't have enough life left in her to make it worthwhile for any but the most desparate theives, but all the same, she's got a lot of value to me, and I've put in a lot of work keeping her together and looking presentable.

I'm planning on installing a kill switch on the fuel pump, but as I started thinking about places to hide the switch, I wondered: could I buy an uber-basic remote entry system off of ebay and rig it so that instead of locking and unlocking the doors, the base unit activates and de-activates the kill switch?

It would be perfect, as one of the projects I undertook was making a secure, lockable area in the trunk, I was thinking I could hide the actual switch in an inconspicuous spot back there. Was even wondering if I bought one with more functions (lock, unlock, panic, remote start maybe) if I could rig up both fuel pump and starter kill switches off of one remote system.

Just wondering if anybody's done this, heard of this being done, has any idea what it would take--I'm competent in basic wiring, I can install a manual switch no problem, just not sure how I could make this work.

Thanks, and a belated thank-you to everybody whose posts prevented me from doing something stupid that I read before I registered... this site has saved me a great deal of frustration.

 

Most people think its best to have a kill switch thats looks like an oem switch mounted near other real oem switches...

but yeah, there's threads on everything you asked, if ya searched..

 

First of all ,WElcome .
I have a first gen also and have not taken the top off for the same reason , i dont want it stolen. I will be watching to see what you do to .

and where are the pics of this covered area on the truck .