Date:         Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:04:05 -0700
Reply-To:     TJ Hannink <tjhannink@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         TJ Hannink <tjhannink@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: That Audiovox Cruise Control
Comments: To: Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <42A47374.3050306@gmail.com>
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Does your throttle shaft have an arm with a ball on it now? It might not, since it is an older model but if it does, a ball-socket fitting should be available at an auto parts store. I think I scrounged mine off an old junkyard vehicle's carb linkage. There was a shaft threaded into it, I removed it and found a screw that fit then bent one of the linkage parts that came in the cruise kit and screwed it to the ball/socket.

It might be possible to attach the mechanical part of the cruise linkage somewhere near where the throttle cable hooks in using some type of a stand-off bracket to keep the cruise cable from interfering with the operation of the throttle cable.

I could get you a better picture, but I am on vacation and Goldibox is back in Orlando. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with. Did you mount the Audiovox unit in the same location that I did?

Tim Hannink
Winter Park, FL
currently camping in Tybee Island, GA (yes, I took the 'lodge) :>)
1987 Vanagon Camper - Goldibox
1981 Bluebird Wanderlodge FC-33SB

Michael Elliott <j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
I will be mounting one this week. I have already seen Tim's nice page:

http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/photos/Cruise_Control_Cable_Connec.jpg

About that install, he wrote, "I fabricated a snap-on ball-socket end
for the cruise cable, flipped the stock cruise arm with the ball
connection on the throttle connection upside down so it is directly
above the throttle cable connection and snapped them together; very
simple after the fabrication."

I could use a little assistance with that part of the installation. Does
anyone have some pointers?

--

Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
KG6RCR


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