Locking Gas Fill Door.

Snotick · Post by **Snotick** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:53 pm

Has anyone modded their CC to make the fuel door lock. Where you need to push or pull some type of release from inside the cab to open the fuel door. With the rising cost of gas, and the fact that my gas cap was oddly loose on my CC, (caused a SES light) I am thinking about alternatives to just the plain old locking gas cap.

Horsehammerr · Post by **Horsehammerr** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:51 am

Make one thats universal. Patend it and market it and retire.

brandons4door · Post by **brandons4door** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:25 am

I've seen universal locking caps.
http://www.stant.com/

Snotick · Post by **Snotick** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:15 am

I was talking about locking the fuel door, not just the gas cap. I think there are two types. I am assuming that it simply works via a release cable, the adding of the cable would be simple. My concern is with modding the catch at the fuel door.

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:20 pm

Snotick wrote:I was talking about locking the fuel door, not just the gas cap.

I too like that idea but not to throw cold water on ya if they want it bad enough they'll get it.

All a locking cover requires is a bar or large screwdriver and they're in. Trust me, I know. This happened not long ago on one of my cars.

The sob's did more body damage than fuel loss cost!

AZS10Crew · Post by **AZS10Crew** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:38 am

Locking billett fuel door

barch97 · Post by **barch97** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:49 am

and once you're finished fabricating and installing a locking fuel door, what's to stop someone from jabbing a screw driver through the bottom of your tank or slicing your fuel line and draining your gas out into a bucket?

one, two, three, four

with the popularity of remote release and locking fuel doors, I wonder if gas thieves even bother trying the cap before making their own hole.

sonomaextcab · Post by **sonomaextcab** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:12 am

I have a locking gas cab. I had a locking fuel door that open via cable on a old grandam. When it was snowing and icing you had better hoped that you had a full tank of fuel. I t would not open.

Snotick · Post by **Snotick** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:00 pm

You know we're just a few more nickels away from syphon thieves coming out of the woodwork. I was just thinking of a way to prevent it. I think I will I'll just sell my truck and buy a crappy bicycle. No one would want to steal an old 10 speed.

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:51 am

Snotick wrote:I think I will I'll just sell my truck and buy a crappy bicycle. No one would want to steal an old 10 speed.

Ya got that one right!

No thief wants to work that hard. That's why they steal in the first place.

You live in Omaha? I used to live in Springfield just south of there.

Snotick · Post by **Snotick** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:16 pm

I see you made an upgrade to a warmer climate (and probably less taxes too) LOL

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:37 pm

Snotick wrote:I see you made an upgrade to a warmer climate (and probably less taxes too) LOL

Yes on both counts but not for the reasons you think. I work as a rural carrier and the job opening for full-time was here. The rest as they say is history. Fortunately I have been blessed with an understanding wife who was willing to move to my job upon it's fruition.

brandons4door · Post by **brandons4door** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:13 pm

brandons4door wrote:I've seen universal locking caps.
http://www.stant.com/

Snotick wrote:I was talking about locking the fuel door

sorry fella, i'm a slow reader and a slower thinker

Fixed the quotes for ya. -W

Snotick · Post by **Snotick** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:34 am

roadrunner wrote: I work as a rural carrier and the job opening for full-time was here.

My wife has been a rural mail carrier here in Omaha for 25 years.

green02crew · Post by **green02crew** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:41 pm

Solution:

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:44 pm

Snotick wrote:My wife has been a rural mail carrier here in Omaha for 25 years.

No kidding! I worked out of Boys Town, Stony Ridge, Council Bluffs, Valley, Bennington, and Waterloo as a sub while living there. Small world.

Snotick · Post by **Snotick** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:55 am

green02crew wrote:Solution:

that would work, but it appears to be lincoln model. I was looking for one for the CC.

roadrunner. My wife started at boystown, before the new post office was built, her mom and step dad are rural carriers, back then the regulars were able to hire their own subs. So my wife and sister in law got the job. When the new NW post office was built they moved a bunch of routes to there. I even spent a year working as a sub in 1995, until my daughter was born.
now my wife is at the florence station.

green02crew · Post by **green02crew** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:41 am

It is on a Lincoln but its just a door lock bolted on. I found it on collegehumor.com some kids thought it was funny.

Snotick · Post by **Snotick** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:02 am

I was just joking about it being the wrong model.

green02crew · Post by **green02crew** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:20 pm

ohh man its hard to tell sarcasm online...

roadrunner · Post by **roadrunner** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:48 pm

green02crew wrote:ohh man its hard to tell sarcasm online...

Ya gotta look real hard at the way the letters look.

Guitar831 · Post by **Guitar831** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:28 am

AZS10Crew wrote:Locking billett fuel door

StylinTrucks sells these for a good price varying from $95 to $130 depending on the finish and color and type of bed either fleetside or stepside.

Post by **HenryJ** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:40 am

Guitar831 wrote:
AZS10Crew wrote:Locking billett fuel door
StylinTrucks sells these for a good price varying from $95 to $130 depending on the finish and color and type of bed either fleetside or stepside.

Neither of which will work for our trucks as we have the Isuzu fender bulge. Our gas fill door is not flat.

Post by **Walt** » Sat May 03, 2008 12:32 pm

Barch makes a good point. Most security measures are a deterant. They take the temptation of an easy steal away, by making the would be thief work a bit harder (locking gas cap, rolled up windows, locked doors, etc...). In some cases it works, but against a determined person, probably not.