Cruise Control and Tilt

Paul@CP_Trucks

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I haven't looked but some of you may have ran into this.

Our box truck has no tilt or cruise on the column. Which sucks for long trips.

Will a column for a truck with cruise and tilt bolt/wire right into place without having to trace and splice 500 miles of wire?


It looks to me all the plugs are there but just not for certain.
 

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I just added cruise control on my 97 it just required the horn cover and there is a plug under the hood that goes to a redundant brake shutoff switch that I had to put a wire across. I also have put a tilt column in and it was from a f150 and an auto. The plugs weren't the same in my situation but a just swapped the wires and plugs from my old column onto the new one. Good luck!
 

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Did the truck come originally as a pickup, or a cab & chassis? I'm pretty sure all the pickups just need the cruise-equipped horn cover and the switch plug jumped. Not sure about the C&C trucks, especially the F-Supeduty.
 

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I just added cruise control on my 97 it just required the horn cover and there is a plug under the hood that goes to a redundant brake shutoff switch that I had to put a wire across. I also have put a tilt column in and it was from a f150 and an auto. The plugs weren't the same in my situation but a just swapped the wires and plugs from my old column onto the new one. Good luck!

Did the truck come originally as a pickup, or a cab & chassis? I'm pretty sure all the pickups just need the cruise-equipped horn cover and the switch plug jumped. Not sure about the C&C trucks, especially the F-Supeduty.


It was an 1994 F350 C&C but I have a cruise/tilt column from a 1996 F350 PSD.

Sounds like I can just hook it all up
 

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*** I'll leave this for anyone who may happen to find this information helpful on another project, but I realize this was in the OBS section. For the OBS, disregard. The information below pertains to the superduty chassis.


On my 550 I had to install the steering wheel with cruise control (the airbag/horn module has nothing to do with this) and the clock spring that had the additional wiring built in for the cruise functions. The clock spring is simply the little round plastic swivel behind the wheel itself that houses the ribbon cable that allows the wheel to turn while you have wired circuits in that wheel. It is easy to install fwiw. The necessary harness plugs are already in place under the dash at the base of the column now.

Aside from that, you must address the brake pressure sensor that will probably not be in existence on your master cylinder, but the plug for the sensor will be on your chassis harness usually either clipped near the distribution box, or laying on the inner fender liner.

To disable it you must close this circuit. Either tap in a sensor and plug it up, or just plug in a sensor and lay it on the fender or simply jumper the plug with a length of wire.

The existing brake sensor in the cab on the pedal will allow the cruise to kick off as intended even without the redundant sensor outside. And if that were to fail, the service brakes should pull the truck down enough to slow/stop it even with the cruise still engaged, so I didn't pursue it any farther.

Mine has been working fine for a year or so now. SOOOOO much nicer for towing on the interstate.


Good luck.... nothin to it when you get down to it.
 
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I just added cruise control on my 97 it just required the horn cover and there is a plug under the hood that goes to a redundant brake shutoff switch that I had to put a wire across. I also have put a tilt column in and it was from a f150 and an auto. The plugs weren't the same in my situation but a just swapped the wires and plugs from my old column onto the new one. Good luck!


Do you know what wires/colors I need to jump?
 

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Ya i get that part but wht has to be done to the plug . This is the last thing Ineed to do for my full xlt swap.
 

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Horn pad and jumper on 1994 no workie.......

I had this same problem on my '94.5 that is a 5 speed. I installed a '96 tilt/cruise column, jumped the harness and still didn't have any cruise. I even had a scan tool watching the live data stream to verify that the PCM was reading the cruse buttons correctly. I: Swapped PCM's (BEG8 to SOD4) = no luck, had both PCM's reflashed to MLE0 by a Ford tech I know = no luck still.

I still haven't figured out what the deal was and the truck currently isn't together.
 

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Anyone have the EVTM book for that vintage of truck. I only have the 97 version.
 

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It took some time and diagnosing, but i ended up having a bad clutch switch and horn pad. Put in a new clutch switch and found a different horn pad and the cruse worked great. Thx guys
 
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Any of you with first year trucks figure this out?
Trying to swap mine to cruise also. 3rd brake is working, plug under hood jumped, clutch switch good, wires from horn pad connector to under column connector good, horn pad buttons seem good.
Vss seems good also.
Rather it makes a difference or not, my truck is a chassis cab.
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