bought a used frontier, 4 cyl. had a new clutch setup installed; cruise control worked before this job. now it doesn’t.
is it possible in the R & R of the clutch (manual 5 spd x-mission) that something could have been fouled to cause the cruise control to NOT work?
detail of symptoms: i push the On/Off switch, and “cruise” lights up on dash, but i push the “set” button, and nothing happens, and a “set” indicator light does not come on, on the dash.
where is the simpleton’s breakdown of how cruise control systems work in basic mechanical functions? anyone know?
thanks,
again m.
Look for a speed sensor on or around the tailshaft of the transmission that did not get reconnected. The cruise control needs a speed signal to work…
There’s a cruise control disengage switch connected to the clutch. This is probably what you have messed up.
So does the speedometer. The OP doesn’t say that his speedometer stopped working.
thanks for this starter. i’ll check it out.
Not all cruise controls share the speedometer drive…
No, but this one does.
all clues to the various functional parts (such as your mention of a disenage switch) are of help here. however–
pls don’t use the syntax that implies I “messed up” this job.
if i’d done it, i wouldn’t be writing to determine if the so-called mechanic experts might be at fault; i would have done it right. How?
y learning what i needed to do the job, if i didn’t already know.
but they did it, and i paid them for a botched job that created new problems.l see?
not quite as bad as the medical racket, in the cold room where the patient is “etherized upon a table” (to use TS Eliot’s quaint picture of it), and there is an “X” on the left hemisphere of the BRANE case, that is slick and shaved now; X to mark the spot-- there to alurt the night crew who are coming to finish the job (it’s called “surgery” brane-surgery) . . .
so they arrive, scrubbed, see the X and start to drill in; one gets a beep on his Self_Fone: of a sudden, he whispers loudly to the others attendant, “Hey, it’s the day Krew–the X is for the Good side; it’s the other side needs fix’t!!”
a nick in time, huh?
happens all the time; under the shade tree, in the back alley, in the cold-room . . .
wheee, murkian medicine, and technical expertise in general!!
You didn’t say who did the work, and I meant no insult by “what you have messed up.” If you were paying me for the advice, I might try harder to chose politically correct words.
weird. it was “paying for advice” in the extreme form (letting them practice their competence, i.e.) that got me into the trouble.
i’ve about had it up to here, with people who make their living handsome by charging for advice.
here’s a caption to remind us of another big picture, on that:
remember all the CEOs who were paid for their advice. look where it got the investors. and incidentally, where it got the CEOs!
once again, doctors do operate on the ‘wrong side’ of the brane–and i don’t mean the politically ‘wrong’ side.
you did let slip a useful ‘fact’ to me, in the matter of looking for symptoms and making a good diagnosis–about the disengage switch–and i thank you a third time for this.
i use this car talk site because of spot-on advice freely offer’d, & reliable and competent to the degree that i solved the problems at hand. so i know that both the intelligence, and generosity, or pleasure of the game, are to be met in these forums.
i can–from experience–say that about NO other forum i’ve used, particularly in the range of IT issues, on which i am also an advanced NOVICE.
thanks, for your note.
i’ll give you a nickle for the whole rundown on a bigger issue–if you’re an expert on the matter.
starting with another broad question,
for me to fix this cruise control device, doing it shade-tree fashion, am i going to need some sophisticated diagnostic equipment, more than a VOM meter, and the usual awareness and ability to identify the physical components and parts?
i don’t have an electric circuit schematic, nor computer plug-in peripheral diagnostic equipment, you see.
What you should have is an accurate wiring diagram that covers the cruise control components and a VOM (or DMM). Not required, but often of help, would be the factory troubleshooting procedure for cruise failure.
You may be able to get the diagram and procedures from some Nissan specific forum.
again, much obliged to you.