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MG MGB GT V8 Factory Originals Technical - Audiovox Cruise Control

Purchased an Audiovox cruise control and was looking the engine bay over for the best mounting location for the servo. Looks like the best place may be inside the car near the firewall on the passenger side. The cable looks to be plenty long enough. Anyone else have any experience with the best mounting location?
Jim Miller

Jim, I used a different brand of cruise control. The way I installed it was to attach the throttle linkage & move the servo around until I got the smoothest path I could find. The lead ran back towards the firewall & then curved back towards the front of the car. The servo itself ended up on the inner fender wall on the passenger side.I fitted the electronic part in the passenger side footwell.I deliberately avoided saying right or left as mine is a RHD car & would probably be a mirror image of yours. Barrie E
Barrie Egerton

Are these things hard to install? Just have a low-tech carbureted car. I'd love to have cruise control if there's no risk of fouling things up.

One thing I am wondering: how the heck do these things deduce how fast the car is moving?
David D.

The Audiovox model is a small self contained unit. The unit I purchased off eBay included a magnetic kit that attaches to the drive shaft to detect the vehicle speed. Reading through the installation manual if you have a manual transmission vehicle speed can be detected off the ignition coil and the magnetic sensor is not needed. Read somewhere and it may have been this bulletin board of a successful installation using the ignition coil to detect speed.
Jim Miller

Jim,
I installed the audiovox cruise servo exactly where you indicated. The cable is plenty long.I drilled holes in the radio supports and threaded it through and up through the firewall near the throttle cable. The unit works very well, I've had it installed for over a year.

Bbernie
79 MGB V8
Bernie Posey

Bernie,

I'm anxious to see how you installed your cruise control. Maybe you could do a tech session in Tennessee.

See you there.

Al
Al Wulf

I bought an old but still unused Sears Cruise Control last Fall. Haven't installed it yet. Plan to put the vacuum actuator in the engine compartment where the charcoal canisters used to be.
Carl

At the moment I'm using part of a broken splitting maul handle as a hand operated cruise cruise control (low tech hand throttle).
Al Wulf

This thread was discussed between 16/02/2003 and 21/02/2003

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