Re: Mysterious yellow box

[Jean-Claude Desinor <desinor@sympatico.ca>]

  That would be a cruise control, I hade the exact same cruise control
installed on my 84.

  Mine stopped working when the magnets for the speed sensor fell off.
They were attached to the left front axle. There is also a humongous
vacuum driven servo throttle control somewhere on the engine
compartment, a switch on the clutch or brake pedal, and a chain linking
both pedals, attached to the firewall or under the dash.

  The three adjustments are low speed, sensitivity and centering.

  Hmmm ... just found the manual. It was actually a Sears unit, made by
Dana. Sears' model number was 45600. 

  I had it installed because at the time I was a lot on the highway, and
that was a safe way to avoid "speed creep", where you start doing 100
Kph, the legal limit, and end up a few hours later doing 160, until you
run into a radar trap.

  The cruise control helped me sail safely at 120 :-)

  Hope this helps!

	Jean-Claude
	84 8V (in hibernation)
	96 Jetta GLS

Vee Dubb a écrit :
> 
> While checking on my clutch cable, I noticed a yellow box under my dash.
> It's about 4"x3"x1" and refes to itself as a "regulator".  It had many wires
> connected to it, and had three adjustments on the outside of it.  They were
> labled "sensitivity adj." "center adjst." and I think "S.W. adj.".  The
> regulator is made by Dana.  The box was tucked up under the dash just
> outboard of the steering column, and I couldn't really see whre the wires
> were going to (just disappeared behind the fuse panel).  Does anyone know
> what this thing might be?  I just got this car and it has a lot of
> aftermarket stuff on it, so I'm guessing this is some modification I am
> unfamiliar with.  There was a red wire with an inline fuse holder that had
> no fuse in it, so whatever it is I'm guessing it isn't working.  Car has no
> power locks and came with no alarm remote.  the box is plastic and very
> lightweight, so I don't think it could be an amplifier.  It has several
> connections on it that seemed to be made using sotock 2-pin connections and
> multi-pin connections, so maybe it is replacing something?  The only thing
> electrical that acts funny on the car is the non-functional rear wiper, but
> that's hardly something that would have 15 or more wires involved in
> controlling it.
> 
> Any guesses?
> 
> Sincerely;
> Brian Haygood
> 
> '87 Scirocco 16v
> 
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