audiovox cruise control, 2002 windstar

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Forum Name: Cruise Controls
Forum Discription: Cruise Control Settings, Tach Signal, VSS PPM(Vehicle Speed Signal Pulses Per Mile), Vacuum, Brake, etc.
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Topic: audiovox cruise control, 2002 windstar

Posted By: y-not
Subject: audiovox cruise control, 2002 windstar
Date Posted: May 22, 2008 at 8:01 PM

Hey folks,

I'm tring to install an Audiovox CCS100 Universal Vacuum Cruise Control w/ Dash Mounted Control Switch & Magnet Kit into a 2002 Ford Windstar.

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The installation instructions are decent, at best.

One step that is causing me grief is tapping into the tachometer.

I understand that the tach wire is dark blue/light green and located at the coil modual.

Great. But how in the name of all that is holy do I tap into a wire that I can hardly even see?

Is there another location that I can tap into?

Does anyone have any clear photos of this wiring?

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Posted By: spookiestylez
Date Posted: May 23, 2008 at 12:34 AM

There is a triple coil pack on the driver side of the engine. For tach use any of the following wires: pink/white, RED / lt blue, or blue/lt green.

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RTFM

Posted By: y-not
Date Posted: May 23, 2008 at 4:55 AM

spookiestylez wrote:

There is a triple coil pack on the driver side of the engine. For tach use any of the following wires: pink/white, RED / lt blue, or blue/lt green.

Cool beans dude!
I'll have a go at that and see where it takes me.

Thanks!

Posted By: nikko0213
Date Posted: May 27, 2008 at 9:29 PM

If it's a hard time getting that wire on the coil pack and believe me it is. You can go to the PCM it's located on the passenger side coming through the fire wall. The harness plug is on the engine side. There is 104 pin connector going into it. It will be pin number 78 in that 104 pin connector.

Posted By: y-not
Date Posted: May 29, 2008 at 2:09 PM

nikko0213 wrote:

If it's a hard time getting that wire on the coil pack and believe me it is. You can go to the PCM it's located on the passenger side coming through the fire wall. The harness plug is on the engine side. There is 104 pin connector going into it. It will be pin number 78 in that 104 pin connector.

Cool.
I'll take all the information I can gather.
During the last 2 weeks, I've put about 3000 hwy miles on this beast and my foot/leg are killing me.

In the installation instructions, it stated that I had to use the magnets because the van does not have a VSS (Vehicle Speed Sensor) to plug into. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?

Posted By: nikko0213
Date Posted: May 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM

Yes its true if you are using a CCS-100. You have tou use magnets. The reason why is the vss pulse is 18000 and that CCS-100 can only go up to 8000 pulses.