DanR
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Before I would put a safety shutoff in line with the fuel pump I would put a safety shutoff in line with the battery power feed line to the ignition switch
Jerry, Can you provide a schematic ?
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Before I would put a safety shutoff in line with the fuel pump I would put a safety shutoff in line with the battery power feed line to the ignition switch
I started life when cars did not have seatbelts, padded dash, collapsible columns, door safety beams, brake-away mirrors, padded visors, air bags, or any of today's safety devices.... Me, I prefer my freedom to make my own choices.
Over the years I've never seen you say what car you have for every day use. What do you drive besides the Sunbeams? The amount and number of safety features vary from car to car. It's getting harder to understand the basics. There are a bunch of features on the wife's new SUV that I would love to delete. The first would be the back up alarm system. It picks up the trees in front of the house. Are Australian safety requirements similar to the states?Yup.... And literally thousands more people were badly injured and killed without all of the above. I support your right to be impailed on a steering column, head hit the 'screen, face split open by some hard plastic visors... All of the above.
The cars are old... They didnt come with a lot of safety features and thus especially in modern traffic require being driven with a certain level of caution and comon sense.... But not installing or wearing seatbelts is just ...... and adding a small safety switch is not obtrusive and ultimately a decent idea. Feel free to choose to die or injur yourself without comon sense, but encouraging others to do the same is just irresponsible.... Id say its like tellimg people not to get vaxinated against polio ....but there are people trying to push that too....
Jerry, Can you provide a schematic ?
Wow! Do you guys live with that many crashes? A fender bender around here makes the front page of the local paper. Big news.