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Cruise Control Wiring


Blue90

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This started in a thread I posted about a week ago - Shipping Charges. I was blowing cruise control fuses and I couldn't figure out why. I took the car to my local mechanic who traced it down to the wiring inside the steering column. When I got there he handed me the old loom and told me the wires broke at the tilt wheel bend point.

I'll try to take better photos.

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Well, the wiring may have been stretched a bit tight as it passed through the pivot point of the tilt mechanism. I tend to agree with Daniel, it looks more like it got pinched and torn, rather than slowly split over an extended period of time. Something to be aware of nonetheless. I am rather surprised the wiring in these GM columns holds up so well for a long as it does. I note on my 88 the "accel" switch on the cruise stalk is not working. Need to determine if it is the stalk itself or the wiring in the column. Really hoping it is the former, as I loath tearing down the column to do work in there.

KDirk

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Kevin,

Where's your sense of adventure? If you thought the sub-frame project was tough, after gutting a steering column you'll look back on the insulator project as a walk in the park. If you or anyone else does this I offer three suggestions.

1.) Get the exploded diagram of the column from the FSM and enlarge it.

2.) Take lots pictures during dis-assembly.

3.) No WWI (working while intoxicated).

4.) Pay attention!

John F.

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Heh,

I've had a column apart once so I knoweth of what I speak. And I spoketh a great multitude of belligerently fullsome and profane outbursts on that unfortunate day I can tell you. Anyone who has torn down a column knows the words. Those who haven't, use your imagination.

Oh, and while changing the sub-frame bushings is a job that ranks somewhere higher than cleaning a septic tank on the list of life's most displeasurable experiences, I still think I'd take that over a full column tear down and rebuild.

KDirk

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