Protecting Your Fuel Filler Cap From Monkeying

[davids2toys]

Originally Posted by Jamo

Not trying to hijack, Patrick...got some PMs requesting pics...old/out of focus.

Very cool, i am going to do this. I love the way your method looks. The only thing I will do different is a piece of "spaghetti" to protect the cap from scratches, same stuff that is used on the wheels to protect the painted surfaces from the safety wire. I used .041 on the wheels and will probable do the same here. Probably overkill, but I love the way it looks!
These pics are a little blurry as you said. I am going to assume the pigtail is on the latch side and tucked under because the hinged side looks to be one continuous loop?

[Jamo]

Yup...tucked under tight on latch end.

[rodneym]

I know I'm a little late on this...

Mine is a take on Jamo's. I can't really tell if part of Jamo's wire is attached to the latch or not.
I wrapped the wire around the hinge, twisted, went around the latch, twisted again and pig tailed it.
When I fill up, I can pop it off and hand it to Michelle, who already has her hand in the air waiting for the handoff.
I've been using this same wire for years. Scratches and all...





And for those who don't think scratches are cool, the first 14 seconds of this clip pretty much sums it up.....
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[Rawkkrawler]

I remember this thread when originally posted, and I do love the look. But I do have to ask, are there really that many issues with gas cap tampering? I have no secondary gas cap on mine and to the best of my knowledge it's been safe so far.

My Cobra sees as many Wal-Mart and grocery stores as it does car shows. I've not even seen a fingerprint on the car. I guess I've been lucky

[rodneym]

You have been lucky.
My Kirkham attracts groping hands like crazy. Light scratches to full hand prints.
The wire though is definitely more for looks in my case. But who knows? Maybe someone did try to open it.

[davids2toys]

Yes, you have been very lucky, my car always has paw prints.

rodneym, I like the way your looks, very clean, but Jamo's looks like it would actually prevent the tab from being pushed down until you slide the loop over to the right or left

[rodneym]

Here's another take on this subject. I snapped this pic right off of an original Daytona Coupe, today.

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BTW, davids2toys, you can't push down the latch on my setup.

[davids2toys]

Noted, thanks. I have not got to this yet., I will try your way and Jamo's way first. I think they are the cleanest looking

[CompClassics]

My shop offers a concours reproduction of the Shelby American Inc fabricated locking ring that was used 289 competition Cobras and Daytona Coupes. After the ring is installed you can utilize a padlock to deter people from tampering with your fuel cap, just as SAI originally had done back in period only they were trying to prevent from being sabotaged.

[CompClassics]

.......the "locking ring", the fabrication utilizes "AN" hardware as per the originals.

[cobrakiwi]

Great details, thank you for sharing.