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[MiniSi]

Step 1: Remove carpet and underlay/sound proofing whilst hunting for water leak
Step 2: Locate water leak and leave interior stripped
Step 3: Drive to work
Step 4: Realise some bit of carpet stuck behind accelerator pedal
Step 5: Put in 3rd gear and litle bit of revs
Step 6: Sit back and enjoy...

LOL! Whooooopsy! Anyway found my leak, and have de-installed cruise control too... tehe! Was thinking I'd left it on choke until I saw the carpet poking under the pedal. Job done.

Si.

[Guess-Works.com]

PML...

yeah, beats the choke out, or handbag holder, trick.... but does lead onto something....

I've had a number of cars with cruise, and you do miss it, so I looked at the possibility of ripping off one down the local scrappy. My target source vehicles, were Jags and Mercs which seem to have slightly less complicated and rhobust systems. but even then there's a lot of bits you need...

There use to be a company down here called "Econocruise" but I think they went bust a decade or so ago.... does anyone know of suppliers of aftermarket cruise control systems...?

[Jammy]

Would these be electrical or mechanical systems? I would of thought something like that would only work with an ECU, but I spose you could get something mechanical that would hold the accelerator open.

[Purple Tom]

probably some sort of hand throttle would be best.

our Land Rover 90 has one for deep wading.

You could even use just another Mini choke cable, and adapt the throttle linkage to support two cables, and do it that way. Then just pull the hand throttle out to the desired revs, lock it off and bob's your uncle?

[MiniSi]

^^^ Sounds like a project for the summer!

[Guess-Works.com]

mechanical cruise controls are realy simple afairs, there's basically a sensor which detects how fast you are going and a little control box connected to the a switch, which is either on or off ( or the slightly better ones with increase and decrease aswell )... The control box then runs an actuator which is connected to a vacuum driven servo ( normally off the manifold ). to maintain the speed the servo is connected via a physical connection to the throttle on the carb or injection unit. and to increase speed it opens the throttle, and to decrease, closes it... A sensor is fitted to the brake ( and clutch in manual model ) so that when pressed, the cruise it switched off...

[Dan]

I know of one, I'll try to find a web site for it. It uses a digital stepper motor servo instead of vacuum so no vaccum tanks or anything needed. Very small, single unit about the size of the relay pack (not the ECU) on injected cars with a single bowden cable coming out of it to fix to the carb and a wiring loom. Easy job.