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Old 04-14-2005, 10:31 PM   #2
chevybill
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Talking The thing on the fender is a transducer.

Your are complemented on your "resourcefulness" for installing this system on your truck.

The part on the innner fender is called a transducer, you now have 2 separate
speedo cables? Correct?

This same system is used on my 78 vette, if the speedo stops working all of a
sudden- that means the transducer has locked up and one or both of the speedo cables will instantly twist in two. This is due to the transducer locking up, internally. I had to replace the transducer on my vette to get the speedo working and that fixed my cruise control. If you develop a vaccum leak your cruise will surge forward and then decelerate over and over.


Another vette guy told me it was a copy of a chrysler cruise, I have not seen anything to back that up in writing.

Transducers cost about 100 dollars and there is a core charge, if you do not take the old one back. There is a very good chance that this same cruise system was available on a vette produced the same model year as your truck.

Did not mean to run on so much, but if you know this ahead of time it will be much easier to repair; maybe you will have many miles of trouble free "cruising".
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