[Vwdiesel] Cruise control on a diesel

[Sandy Cameron]

At 01:06 PM 9/20/05 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/20/2005 8:06:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Miser writes: 
>> How does cruise control work on a diesel? Can I make one? 
>> Roooogggger!
>> Miser
>You're probably wondering what they do for a speed input.  The 85 Jetta (RIP) 
>has a set of magnets on the halfshaft hub.

The stock Jetta cruise control gets its speed info from a reed switch in the
speedometer
 And a curious bit of trivia, the cruise components, made by Bosch, are used
by Yamaha for the factory cruise control in my venture royale motorcycle.
Even the vacuum actuator is a stock volks part!

Sandy