Sunday, Apr 23, 2006 at 23:58
ok, 3-4 hrs of work and I'm done.
actually less than that as I spent some time walking around bunnings looking for a suitable bracket. Ended up buying an angle and then ended up just using the supplied bracket anyway.
The supplied bracket was a good fit from the chassis to the front driveshaft. Used self tapping metal hex bolts and bent the bracket at a slight angle to get the sensor at a tangent to the driveshaft.
The throttle set up was easy as I used the spare mechanism (probably meant for cruise control anyway) to hook the cable into. Looks like it was always meant to be there.
The hardest bit I must say was soldering the two wires to the brake switch. The existing brake switch had it's wires all wound up and taped up right up under the dash. I spent a good deal of time on my back trying to tap into the wires that went into the switch. Ended up with a bit of a messy job but the wires were fixed good so I just covered up with heat shrink and electrical tape.
Q: Has anyone hooked up the brake switch wires on a cruiser in a different manner?
I'd really like t revisit this part and clean it up a bit.
Anyway, went through the diagnostics and all tests OK. Then went on the road
test and set cruise to 60 km/hr. Worked perfectly except I could set the cruise higher than 60-70km/hr. Could even here the popping from the actuator. Mind you I had two magnets and I had not cut the black wire.
I remember BigRed saying this in his post but I wanted to make sure that this was the same for my cruiser before I cut any wires etc.
So tomorrow I'll remove 1 magnet and cut the black wire.
Q: One thing I noticed was that when pressing the accelerator while cruise was set did not disengage the cruise control. Is this normal?
Will post pictures tomorrow. Thanks again for your help Bigredcruiser!!
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