The Clipper is headed down the road

[mccammonds]

Just finished planning this winters trip on MicroSoft Streets and Trips.  5986 miles to put on the clipper.  We'll tow a Toyota Matrix to run around in at our stops.  Will pull out on 29 September and plan on coming back some time in March.  Will pull through the states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Lousianna.  I have almost  everything fixed on the rig except the Cruise Control.   I'll still work on it but I've miss place the trouble shooting  information I found on this site about a year and a half ago.  Does anyone remember where and when it was posted to this site??  It had the readings we should see at the wires on the unit.  My gray water valvle is giving me trouble and I may have to replace it.  I can do that down the road.   

[Horst]

is this it??

dboling wrote this:
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They should be as the 360, 383, 440 Big Blocks were pretty much same engine block.

You might also look into and aftermarket Cruise Control Kit, I used to install them in the 80s and they worked pretty well. The only thing I didn't like about them is you placed magnets on the driveline and a sensor would read how fast the magnets would pass by.

In my experience cruise controls rarely go bad, the problem would usually be a fuse, broken wire or bad connection to the cruise unit, bad/broken speedo cable, bad cruise cut off switch at the brake pedal,  no vacuum to cruise unit, bad cruise switch.

Using a test light, with key turned on, the cruise unit should not have any power to it until you turn the cruise switch to on and only 1 lead should be hot if more than 1 wire is hot check your brake switch and cruise switch, if you have power to 1 lead then hit the set button while checking the another wires, the test should light while holding the set button, check the last wire with test light while pressing the brake pedal and the light should light. If all these tests pass, check your vacuum source to cruise unit. if all tests pass the cruise unit is probably bad.

Note: most older cruise units would not operate at speed below 25 mph.
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the link for the whole thread is here
http://americanclipperownersclub.com/techforum/index.php?topic=1609.15

[mccammonds]

Thanks so much.  I looked everywhere for that info.   I'll copy it and file it in my documents.