cruise control

Welcome to the mad house!! I read somewhere recently that 20 guys in the same 4x4 club had fitted cruise units from ,,,believe it or not K Mart, They said they were great and performed well. Not that i can remember seeing a unit at K Mart myself. Michael

handy
we put c/control on our hzj79 it has been great, after an initial problem with the sensor to pick up the signal from the tailshaft magnet. it's an AP50 or an AP60 I think the only diference between the two is one has a stalk with buttons on it and the other (ours) is controled by buttons on a pad that is stuck on the dash with double sided tape. our tojo is a manual so we put a brake switch of an old wrecked car on the clutch pedal to disable it when change gears.
Kmart have then sometimes, but we got it from super cheep think it was just under $200.00, has been on for over 50,000km nearly all bush.
Mac

Welcome handy, you cazn go for a cheapo AP90 from KMarket or SuperCheep for that type of rig, they work ok too.

but remember to not let the engine labour ...ie change down when required.

G'day handy,
Have had an AP50 or 60 (forget which one) fitted to my 85 HJ cruiser for many years and the only problem in the early days was losing magnets (my fault). I have overcome that problem and it's been plain sailing ever since. Excellent for those long stretches of road.
Cheers,
Bros.

Just an aside: I know most of us have cruise control and find it very useful but police believe it contributes to a number of single vehicle country road accidents because people fall asleep and the cruise control happily continues propelling them at 100kph or whatever.

Maybe best not to use it if you're feeling tired - yes I know we should stop when we're tired but we don't always do that, do we?

Mike Harding

I've had one of the KMart cruise controls fitted for many years, on an '89 Diesel GQ. It has been terrific, surived trips to the centre, to the Cape and back, and no problems. Took a few hours to fix, but after that, no problems. Highly recommended.

thanks for the info i will check them out. cheers

I just installed the AP60 in my 80 series Cruiser.
Have a look at this thread.

Joe

I'm running a Kmart Command AP50 on my turbo diesel GU, works a treat. Had one on my old diesel Mav, and worked fine on that as well.
This week, Kmart are having a 25% off sale on auto parts, so this would be a good time to duck in.
Can supply a mod circuit to utilise the speedo sensor rather than magnets on the drive shaft, as supplied.
gezza90 at tpg dot com dot au
Gerry