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Bought my truck from a farmer, found a lever with a cruise control button on it, I figured my truck had/has cruise control, however, anytime I look for said cruise control switches for my year, I get the cluster ones with, wiper, cruise, etc. I do not have that signal lever. I would like to know if my truck came with the lever or not. Lever looks old and worn compared to the current lever in the truck. So my guess it was replaced! (1983 K10 Scottsdale 4WD 5.0L 305)


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Someone more knowledgeable than me will chime in, but yes the trucks changed from the single cruise button on the turn signal stalk and wiper switch on the dash to the multifunction stalk right around your year.
The real question is does it have the rest of the cruise control stuff under the hood.
 
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Does it still have the SPID label in the glovebox?

Cruise is RPO K34.

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'84 was the first year that the trucks got the multifunction stalk with wiper control.

But I guess I'm confused on what's going on. Do you just want to know if your truck came with cruise control originally?
 
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Grit dog said:
Someone more knowledgeable than me will chime in, but yes the trucks changed from the single cruise button on the turn signal stalk and wiper switch on the dash to the multifunction stalk right around your year.
The real question is does it have the rest of the cruise control stuff under the hood.
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What does that look like?
 
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'84 was the first year that the trucks got the multifunction stalk with wiper control.

But I guess I'm confused on what's going on. Do you just want to know if your truck came with cruise control originally?
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No, I want to know if the button is my year
 
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bshipley08 said:
No, I want to know if the button is my year
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Yes, the button is your year. There was also a fancier version that had a resume switch on it, but I think the transducer under the hood was different on that one.
 
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Yes, the button is your year. There was also a fancier version that had a resume switch on it, but I think the transducer under the hood was different on that one.
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Ok thank you, obviously this being a farmers truck you find a thing or 2.
 
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Keith Seymore said:
Does it still have the SPID label in the glovebox?

Cruise is RPO K34.

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Hey Keith-

Sorry for the question that may be obvious to some, but did all the trucks use the same wiring harness? As in, if a guy got all the hardware (cruise box, stalk, Speedo cables etc) is the wiring already on the truck? Thanks in advance.

Chad
 
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Check under dash and see look for this connector. It will be somewhere around the base of the column, but you won’t need to pull much apart. I don’t think your AC duct will be in the way either. It is a flat connector with two pins on each side. There is no other connector on the truck that fits this male spade which comes from the cruise control arm down the column. The stick just pulls out of the column without tools, it just needs a hard yank, and then line it up and push it back in, so there is a chance someone just replaced the stick if the other one broke.
 

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Cruise control on these later trucks like yours is a seperate add on harness. If I remember correctly, the cruise control module is clipped to a bracket near the gas pedal, the cruise servo bolts to the back of the intake, there is a connector that plugs into the speed sensor need the speedometer, a couple vacuum hoses and connections at the fuse box.

I don’t see K34 in your SPID. More than likely someone swapped in a steering column from a truck that had cruise.

Cruise control is fairly simple to add if you get all the little parts that make the system complete.
 
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Broken85 said:
Check under dash and see look for this connector. It will be somewhere around the base of the column, but you won’t need to pull much apart. I don’t think your AC duct will be in the way either. It is a flat connector with two pins on each side. There is no other connector on the truck that fits this male spade which comes from the cruise control arm down the column. The stick just pulls out of the column without tools, it just needs a hard yank, and then line it up and push it back in, so there is a chance someone just replaced the stick if the other one broke.
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The above is only correct if you have wipers on the column and no cruise. You still have to deal with the wiring that runs down the column if you have wipers on the column AND cruise.

If you have wipers on the dash the cruise stalk is held in to the turn signal switch with a screw that is not accessible outside the column.

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ChuckN said:
Hey Keith-

Sorry for the question that may be obvious to some, but did all the trucks use the same wiring harness? As in, if a guy got all the hardware (cruise box, stalk, Speedo cables etc) is the wiring already on the truck? Thanks in advance.

Chad
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No - wire harnesses were specific to the option content of the truck.

So you might have 20 or 30 wiring harness part numbers to cover the possible one million build combinations.

In some cases, or for service parts, you might give away a branch or a connector (taped back) depending on the specific business case of if it was cheaper to do that than proliferate another harness.

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