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Cruise Control

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Cruise Control

Post by Lawrence »

There is a little knob on the right hand side of the steering wheel in my Gq. I think its suppose to be cruise control. I also had it in the previous MK that i had. How practical is this knob and whats the best way to operate it?
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Post by mudmav »

Its not cruise mate its a throttle or choke knob. its good for cold starts and stuff like that.
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Post by nastytroll »

It is actualy a Hand trottle or Idle up, used for keeping the Idle up for slow speed rough terrain, the older MQ/MK had full travel on the accelerator peddel, the GQ is limmited to about 1600rpm with a crimped on ring. I dont remember if the GU has one, but I would assume it did.
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Post by turps »

nastytroll wrote:It is actualy a Hand trottle or Idle up, used for keeping the Idle up for slow speed rough terrain, the older MQ/MK had full travel on the accelerator peddel, the GQ is limmited to about 1600rpm with a crimped on ring. I dont remember if the GU has one, but I would assume it did.
On a petrol GQ its good for 100km/h on a desiel GQ its good for about 80-85km/h.
But its not really a good thing to use on road as a cruise control. As it dosent disconnect when the breaks are hit.
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Post by mattstar »

I thought it would have been for a pto whinch?
GU has a "heat" switch in a similar spot, boost engine revs to around 1200rpm, I read somewhere it was for cold starts in adverse weather conditions. But it is only an electrical toggle switch.
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Post by turps »

mattstar wrote:I thought it would have been for a pto whinch?
Could be used for that. But its on every Diesel GQ and a similar thing on the petrols. Its just a hand throttle. Used for increseing idle speed.
With my PTO if I pulled the lever out all the way and let it winch the PTO shaft would vibrate to death.
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Post by j-top paj »

i didnt think it came out on the petrol versions did it?
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Post by Patrolguy »

Yeah I had a 89 4.2 Petrol years ago and it had the hand throttle on it.

As well as Cruise Control (after market).

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