84 CRUISE CONTROL ISSUE - Xcelerates bye itself
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Davie Florida
84 CRUISE CONTROL ISSUE - Xcelerates bye itself
Hello all,
I have a small problem with my cruise control on my 84 vette,
Heres what is happening,
If I start the car & the switch is on, The car will just xcelerate by itself, If the switch is off it does nothing.
If the car is running at idle in neutral in my drive way & I turn the switch to on, It will just xcelerate like mad..
Any Ideas would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Ant...
I have a small problem with my cruise control on my 84 vette,
Heres what is happening,
If I start the car & the switch is on, The car will just xcelerate by itself, If the switch is off it does nothing.
If the car is running at idle in neutral in my drive way & I turn the switch to on, It will just xcelerate like mad..
Any Ideas would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Ant...
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Take a look at the chain that connects the servo to the cable,it can get bunched up causing the chain to shorten and this will cause the high idle.This happened to an 84 I owned years ago except I was driving the car,not a fun experience.The servo is either on the left above the battery or if its an early car it would be down in the left well in the front bumper,at least this is what Ive seen in early diagrams.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 944
Likes: 11
From: Davie Florida
Take a look at the chain that connects the servo to the cable,it can get bunched up causing the chain to shorten and this will cause the high idle.This happened to an 84 I owned years ago except I was driving the car,not a fun experience.The servo is either on the left above the battery or if its an early car it would be down in the left well in the front bumper,at least this is what Ive seen in early diagrams.
I went & checked the chain, All looks good there... I had it happen to me when I was driving the car as well & Not a good thing for sure.. Little scary actually..
Any other things I could check to see what is causing this?
Thanks in advance for any replies...
Ant...
