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ctilsie242
Explorer II
Dec 20, 2017

Safe to splice the power wires going to a E-450 fuel pump?

A friend of mine has an E-450 based class "C", which nearly was stolen, but the thieves couldn't get away with the vehicle due to a dead engine battery. To prevent this again, I was proposing somet...
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time2roll
Nomad
Dec 20, 2017
ctilsie242 wrote:
Has anyone done this? My biggest worry is that the connection is a full CAN, not just power leads.
I would not touch this connection.

Since the battery is dead anyway just leave it out. Replace battery when next use is near. Then remove the battery during storage and keep it charged with a Battery Minder or Battery Tender brand maintainer. Solves both issues.

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