O/T(ish) UPDATE steering wheel lock??
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I have aquired a Leyland DAF 200 flat bed at work that no-one owns (checked with DVLA and Police), i have got into it using a snooker table key, and now im trying to start it.

No being a nice kid i have never hot wired a car before, however i know the basics. On the back of the ignition switch there are 4 wires:
1 earth
2 x (approx) 1mm wires
1 x (approx) 2mm wires

now when i touched one of the 1mm wires to the earth the dash lit up and the wipers came on. the other 1mm one their was a ticking noise that sounded like the starter trying to go, but the batt was too dead (been sat for 3 years lol)

When i touched the large cable to the earth nothing happened.....

The batt is on charge now, so when try it tomorrow ( i want to make sure the engine still turns over before i spend any cash on it) what do i have to do you get it to start?

Edited by Mini_Andy on 29th Aug, 2008.

not sure on on a daf tbh

with older cars you just run a wire from the live battery feed on the solenoid to the coil and use a screw driver across the solenoid to crank the engine

youll stil have to get around the steering lock though (which is why they put shear bolts on the column i imagine?)

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What makes you think its an earth? can you see it attached to the body?

I would have thought the larger cable would be the feed, and the two smaller ones ignition live and starter trigger


Get a meter on it to be sure

she runs!!!!

now i need to get the steering wheel lock off, any ideas??

pic? Is it similar to a mini rack sorry dont have a clue what it looks like, angle grinder?

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turn the wheel? really hard! may need 2 people! fooks the barrel, sometimes the column and normally the wheel. costs loads to fix but then if you need the vehicle in a hurry who cares

alternativly drill out the shear bolts on the barrel. or if its like a mini then the shear bolts have never been sheared!

''gone in 60 days''

so how come we slate some noob for admitting to giving false information to his insurance company, yet we help out a bloke trying to hot wire a flatbed truck he "found"

read the first line of the first post.....

being a firefighter i am able to run vehicle check, and the van was 'scrapped' 3 years ago. V62 is all sorted, its now mine!

Edited by Mini_Andy on 29th Aug, 2008.

photos from camera phone:





i really dont wanna spend to much on this, its only to move fire equipment arount the site (already owes me £25 LOL)

how do you put a scrapped vehicle back on the road then?

can you do that with all the right forms?
cheers

EDIT:ive just seen that your using it in the yard!
Doh!

Edited by rubicon on 29th Aug, 2008.

just cut the barrel away from the column

in the first of those 2 pics there is a screw on the side of the barrel at the end furthest from the key. if you remove that the electrical part comes away and you put a screwdriver in to start it (easier that touching wires, especially in the dark) to remove the lock you need to remove the barrel