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Cruise control tried to kill me!

Reply #15 –
Seems like I read somewhere that if you change over to a V-8 from the 4 banger you have to replace the cruise unit. I swapped mine out to the one from my sport and it works fine with the T-5.
1987 Turbo Coupe, 306, Trick Flow Track Heat heads, Comp Cam, Trick Flow Pistons, Eagle Rods, Center Force clutch, T-5, 8.8 w/373 gears, and a bunch more

Cruise control tried to kill me!

Reply #16 –
Quote from: booksix;159366
and check my valve once in finished building my vac pump.


They use the hand operated thing with a gage on it. You could also use anything with a squeeze ball on it. A turkey baster maybe?
Too much vacuum can damage things.

Cruise control tried to kill me!

Reply #17 –
Good point...  My pump will probably pull too much.  I'll get a hand pump from autozone.

As far as the parts:  i would think the cruise has less to do with whether or not you use a t5 and more to do with the pedal assembly you use.  I would also think that if you changed cruise components without changing the wiring in between then the parts were probably the same as what you took off...?

Also, I'm thinking...  yeah, my servo may be bad and getting stuck, but like it was said "what is causing it?"  Perhaps the servo, dump valve AND amplifier are bad?  just thinking out loud....
1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
'89 5.0 w/ ported intakes, Mallory Adjustable FPR, BBK shorties and H with 2.5" Flows, 130 amp 3G, 89 Mustang comp/wiring, Aluminum radiator w/ elec fan, T5 trans, King Cobra clutch, 3.55 gears, 13" Cobra brakes (front), Wilwood prop valve, Mustang A-arms, Front Coil-overs, MM CC plates, Silver 17x9 R's, 03 Cobra IRS, Aluminum DS, 2002 Mustang dash/console etc..., custom leather seats

Cruise control tried to kill me!

Reply #18 –
i'd check all 3 just to be on the safe side.  im back to where i can access all data, i dont know how much access i'll have to it this week or next, but if you want me to look something up for you like ohms and such im pretty sure its in there, just dont ask for diagrams b/c alldata is a joke when it comes to diagrams.

Cruise control tried to kill me!

Reply #19 –
Yeah, im going too.  Thanks guys...  Ill let u know what i find...
1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
'89 5.0 w/ ported intakes, Mallory Adjustable FPR, BBK shorties and H with 2.5" Flows, 130 amp 3G, 89 Mustang comp/wiring, Aluminum radiator w/ elec fan, T5 trans, King Cobra clutch, 3.55 gears, 13" Cobra brakes (front), Wilwood prop valve, Mustang A-arms, Front Coil-overs, MM CC plates, Silver 17x9 R's, 03 Cobra IRS, Aluminum DS, 2002 Mustang dash/console etc..., custom leather seats
 

Cruise control tried to kill me!

Reply #20 –
oh, and tommy... Let me know of you think of where you saw the thing about swapping to v8 parts.  I didnt find anything.
1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
'89 5.0 w/ ported intakes, Mallory Adjustable FPR, BBK shorties and H with 2.5" Flows, 130 amp 3G, 89 Mustang comp/wiring, Aluminum radiator w/ elec fan, T5 trans, King Cobra clutch, 3.55 gears, 13" Cobra brakes (front), Wilwood prop valve, Mustang A-arms, Front Coil-overs, MM CC plates, Silver 17x9 R's, 03 Cobra IRS, Aluminum DS, 2002 Mustang dash/console etc..., custom leather seats