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Posted By: Leeann on 08/23/08 07:25am

It's primitive [emoticon]

Perfect Circle cruise control...the co. that invented it [emoticon]

'73 Concord 20' Class A w/Dodge 440 - see profile for photo

Posted By: Kendas on 08/23/08 11:36pm

Before the advent of electronic speedometers with speed sensors, the only ways you could get a signal for a cruise control was either a "tach" signal, the speedometer cable, the drive shaft, or the axle shaft (front wheel drives). Dealers used the speedometer cable and after market (circa 1976) used magnets on one of the above "shafts" or the "tach" signal from the coil.

I installed my first CC in 1979 on a '78 Subaru DL Wagon. Have had on on every car and our RV since, even if I had to install it myself (replaced the Chrysler OEM unit on our RV with an Audiovox CCS100 and was able to keep the "OEM" head on the turn signal . Audiovox still makes the CCS100.

* This post was edited 08/23/08 11:57pm by Kendas *

1978 21ft Tioga Dodge 440 Motor,
4.5kw Generac and 80 watts Solar
1984 Goldwing Interstate (Daily driver)
Misc Things I've done to my RV pictures

USAF Retired
To Err is human... To Forgive is not SAC Policy.

Posted By: Kendas on 08/23/08 11:43pm

Leeann wrote:

It's primitive [emoticon]

Perfect Circle cruise control...the co. that invented it [emoticon]

Hey, I still even have the original troubleshooting sheet for the one that came with my '78

Posted By: Leeann on 08/24/08 08:25am

^ I do, too [emoticon]

Posted By: eyeteeth on 08/24/08 07:53pm

Leeann,

You got it on the head. We need the one from the cruise to the speedo. I can't "lube" it, it was resting on the exhaust for a bit and it's cooked. I need to completely replace it.

Posted By: Kendas on 08/24/08 08:18pm

On mine it looks like they just "unplugged" the stock cable and plugged it into the CC "brain" and then used a short cable to go from the transmission to the CC "brain" (big loop in the CC to speedometer cable) I wonder if the "stock" cable will work for a replacement? Comment Leeann? Griff? Others?

Posted By: Leeann on 08/24/08 08:25pm

Dang, sorry I was right. To be honest, ours works but the outer sleeve is cooked a bit too - the inner cable still seems okay.

I don't know if the stock cable would work because we just saw that ours was messed up, too. So I haven't looked into it any....Griff? Whaddya think?

Posted By: Leeann on 08/24/08 08:29pm

Oh, by the way: the Concord lives!

We got the improved (shift kit, a few different internals from a factory-rebuilt 727) LoadFlite with rebuilt torque converter reinstalled this weekend and got everything hooked back up (right the first time, no less) and took her out for a test drive today.

Much improved shift points, firmer shifts and better acceleration. All around a great thing - even better, she's ready to drive up to our Labor Day weekend race.

Posted By: Kendas on 08/24/08 09:13pm

Congrats on getting it moving again... Saw the post on the other site.

Ken

Posted By: Leeann on 08/25/08 05:36am

Thanks, Ken. It really is nice - having the torque converter explode was almost worth it to get the shift kit installed [emoticon]

We bled the front brakes before we took her out, too - the brake line that ran under the tranny (dang stupid place for it) went to the rf caliper - and have even more brake than we've ever had. We still have to bleed the rear drums because now we're not sure they're doing much - she dives a bit to the front on hard braking.

However, we are ready for our weekend trip. Water's more than full enough, propane is full, all 3 gas tanks are full, tranny fluid is full, oil is full...now we just have to fill the fridge and beer cooler (not necessarily in that order) [emoticon]

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