Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:44:48 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Anyone bored? Wanna install a cruise control for me?
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I have been planning for a couple years to install the Audiovox cruise
control into Mellow Yellow (1.9, AT), lacking only one bit -- some way to
attach the cruise control's cable to the lever on the throttle body. Where
the gas pedal cable hooks to.

Before you say, hey, that's easy, I want to mention that ATs have a
different thingy on there which makes connecting the cruise control's
cable a real stumper, but manual tranny 1.9's have a totally easy to
connect-to part there. There's some reason for the difference but I forget
what it is. It's not important.

The bottom line is that the manual version is easy to connect the cruise
control to, the AT version is effectively not the least bit easy.

Before I moved away from Carlsbad, CA, Mark Drillock gave me a spare
manual tranny version -- which drops right in! And which I was gonna use!

But I have managed to mislay it in the move. It may still be around the
place, still unpacked. Which I can't get to because I'm, like, totally
gimped out right now.

Having cruise control when your right leg is out of commish would be very
handy. I gotta get another of them manual AT 1.9 accelerator cable
attachment nuts that go on the throttle body arm, and pay someone to
install the Audiovox.

I got all the parts, even the vacuum booster cannister.

Bend, Oregon.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR