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Old Jul 19, 2011 | 06:09 PM
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Default Cruise control loosing speed

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The cruise control engage fine, but rather fast it starts to loose speed. If I then very gently touch the throttle, the speed goes back up where I set it. The speed will again slowly drop.


Does anybody have a diagram over thecCruise vac lines, since I guess this can only be a vaccum problem?
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Yep sounds like you've got it figured out. Regardless of year there is not too much to the cruise control vacuum line(s) - hoses pretty much go from the vacuum tank (or a line connected directly to it) to the cruise servo. From what I've seen, usually the vacuum hose gets crunchy right at or just below (near the battery)the cruise servo.


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checked all hoses, and replaced those that looked bad. The hard lines are hard to check since they are packed in the wire bundles.

I also adjustet the cable, and still I am loosing speed slowl with the Cruise on.

Could this be the little check valve? My AC is working thou.
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Originally Posted by Lars87
checked all hoses, and replaced those that looked bad. The hard lines are hard to check since they are packed in the wire bundles.

I also adjustet the cable, and still I am loosing speed slowl with the Cruise on.

Could this be the little check valve? My AC is working thou.
To me, this really sounds like a vacuum leak in the cruise circuit. It could be the diphram inside the servo is leaking/busted. Pull the vacuum hose and put a hand pump vacuum gauge on the servo to see if it is holding air/leaking/a problem. If the servo vacuum holds and the hoses are good then look at other areas of the vacuum system.
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