Andrew,
Your cruise control is being remotely controlled by people in black
suits in black helocopters. You see it is part of that vast right
wing conspiracy Hillary always referred to!
MMMAH HA HA HA
At 02:23 PM 10/6/2008, you wrote:
Could the wiring be flaky?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> your amp is flaky, does not have anything to do with washing the engine
>
> andrew strasfogel wrote:
>
>> Here I goeagain.
>>
>> My W123 1983 300td cruise control worked fine on our trip to Montpelier,
>> but
>> after we got back it started acting sporadically. For example, the CC
>> switch on the steering column would not engage the cruise but would
>> accelerate the car when pressed upwards. When I released it, the speed
>> would drop back and not engage. I purchased a supposedly good used (not
>> rebuilt) CC amplifier on ebay with a DOA warranty, but after installing it
>> on Saturday and doing a road test I had ZERO CC effect - not even
>> accelerating through use of the switch. I concluded that the unit was
>> even
>> more faulty than the one it replaced, but to make sure, I swapped out the
>> CC
>> servo under the hood for another one off the shelf (supposedly good). The
>> road test yielded identical results.
>>
>> Here's the weird part. I spent a couple hours Sunday spraying oily areas
>> on
>> and under the hood with Simple Green, then scrubbing and spraying with a
>> hose to remove a lot of residual oil from when the PO lost all engine oil
>> through ruptured oil cooler lines. As the paint started to show through
>> all
>> the grime, I also scrubbed the CC servo with Simple Green. Basically, the
>> entire engine compartment got wet, although I didn't do a complete and
>> systematic engine wash. When I drove the car out of the garage, through
>> the
>> alley, and back to its parking palce in front of our house, I tested the
>> CC. Guess what? It now works! WTF cubed. How did water have any effect
>> on the workings of the system?
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