slodat Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 I have wanted cruise control in the truck since the day I bought it. It just makes driving lot more pleasant on the highway. I have some long drives ahead of me in the KC in the coming weeks. I finally took the plunge and installed an aftermarket cruise control, a Rostra Universal Cruise Control (250-1223) and 250-3421 control switch. I bought the whole setup at Instrument Sales and Service. They are near the Portland airport. Cost was just under $300. I didn't take a ton of photos of the installation. It is really straight forward and I was focused on getting it installed. I used a throttle cable wheel off of a throttle body for the cruise cable connection to the carb. I trimmed the wheel until it laid flat on the linkage that was on my carb and welded it together. The cable bracket was welded to the throttle cable bracket. I relocated the horns from the side of the fender well and mounted the servo box. I didn't drill any new holes; just used existing threaded holes for the horns and the servo bracket. I mounted the control switch to the upper portion of the steering column surround. The wiring is very straight forward. One cool feature of the Rostra cruise control is it doesn't use a clutch switch. It has a tachometer input to sense engine RPM. It will shut off the cruise when the clutch is pressed based on this tach signal. For the speed sensor I used one that I got off of a 510. The 510's with dual points have a speed sensor inline between the speedometer and speedo cable on the back of the instrument cluster. I wired its output to the speed sensor lines on the cruise control and it works great. I am very happy with the operation of the cruise. Well worth the effort! Quote Link to comment
slodat Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 hmmm.... Care to elaborate? Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Nothing bad.... just made me think... a little. Quote Link to comment
slodat Posted April 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 Drove the truck on the freeway a good bit yesterday. This thing rocks. I am very pleased with the results! Highly recommended! Quote Link to comment
yello620 Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 Looking good Slo, But not the project i was hoping to see you working on. :poke: Quote Link to comment
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