I've always thought that such a knob would make a great cruise control
(with auto brake/clutch releasing).  Since the pump governs the engine
speed, a simple knob attached somehow to the accelerator pedal would be
very handy for long trips.  I always used a Pringle's can to press the
pedal to the floor with my old 1.6NA engine, but the turbo diesel has
too much power for that to work well.
Anyone ever heard of a mechanical cruise control for a diesel?

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     Anchorage, AK
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Gnarlodious
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 6:13 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: extended idling with a diesel?

Entity Bradley Flubacher spoke thus:

> Proper idle setting is over 800 RPM..  850 I think?
Well, I don't know what the "proper" setting is. Probably whatever runs
good. I know there is a RPM setting where vibration is at a minimum,
this is
important to me with extended idling. I think bigrig drivers like an
idle up
around 1200 when sleeping on it, maybe to keep the fluids flowing...AHEM
anyway, I always wished the lever had a pull knob speed control similar
to
the Cold Start knob to set extended idling just right (at that sweet
spot).
Better yet, a solenoid controlled system (fly by wire).  I wonder if the
new
diesel EuroVans have that feature?

Rachel http://www.gnarlodious.com