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Old 08-18-2007, 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by dieseldiehard View Post
Cruise on the '79 300TD has been disconnected though. It is the old vacuum actuator and with a late turbo engine in it its simply too much work to convert to the new electronics to get cruise working on that car. I've got too many other projects for now
For what it's worth, there is an easy fix to the vacuum cruise issue, on a turbo car. All it takes is to add a check valve on the vacuum supply, and a reservoir on the actuator side of the valve. I've seen a few things used as reservoirs, but the simplest typically involves some thin PVC pipe capped off, with a couple of barbed fittings in one end.

This assumes that the actuator is controlled by something other than the level of the vacuum source, though.
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