silver@csu-cs.UUCP (09/19/83)
I just finished installing a Speed Control made by Dana Corp. It works
great so far. Total cost was $89.43 on sale, back in April (it gathered
dust for a while). The kit was of top quality, with superb
instructions, lots of extra and alternate parts, etc. You don't have to
know much about automobiles to install it, though it would have helped
me to know a little more. Fortunately, I'm surrounded by helpful
neighbors!
There were only two problems worth noting:
1: The smaller the car, the harder it is to install the kit and the
more time, custom modifications, and knuckle-skin (*@%&#!) it
requires. Some of the steps were BARELY possible in my F10. I'm
not happy with the routing of the servo cable over the valve head to
the throttle pulley (which is almost invisible under the pollution
equipment, etc.), but it works.
2: The salesperson said it would take "two and a half, maybe three
hours" to install the control. BS; it took 15-20 hours total. This
was only partly due to #1 above and my ignorance. Just reading the
detailed instructions carefully will take you an hour.
Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"