Our Excellent Adventures

Flick up, flick up. Flick up.

Flick down.

Flick down.

Ahhh, I have matched the speed of the person in from of me. No foot on the throttle. In fact the feet are moving to Huey Lewis.

I love driving by stick. Cruise control on the Sprinter. The little arm that sticks out from the steering wheel on the left. Set it for 65 (my speedometer reads about 2 miles high), sit back and enjoy. It will control most hills, up and down (9999 mpg says the Scan Gauge) and give you the chance to do some dancing - or at least aggressive foot taping.

If you don’t use cruise control, you should. I think it is one of the most effective ways to control mileage and it gives you a bit of freedom.

I’m getting thirsty. The road is smooth, cruise control on - think I can get to the refrig? It is right behind me . . . just a little more . . .

Scan Gauge’s have been mounted in many places but for me, this was the best place to read it in most cases. I did use the Velcro that came with it which so far has worked fine.

To connect it to the OMB and still be able to close the fuse box door, you need to remove the OMB and let it hang loose. You can see one of the screw holes where the OMB was fastened down.

This view from the side shows where the cable comes out of the pillar. Removing the pillar is easy. It is held by three or four snaps. There is a tab at the bottom that to disengage it you need to pop the speaker cover off.

Once the pillar is out cut a small opening for the Scan Gauge cable along the bottom edge. Run the cable up from the OMB connector. Put the pillar back with the cable in place and snap the pillar into place. The rubber molding on the door side of the pillar must be over the pillar edge. To do this, I ran my finger down the inside edge of the molding.