Cruise Control

On the 84, the cruise is a massive beast. I wonder why it has to be so dang big. Anyway, I thought mine looked like crap (besides being too big), so I decided to color coordinate it with the rest of my engine. To do this, remove the cruise cable bracket at the throttle body. Remove the two screws holding the bracket to the frame of the car. Remove the vacuum hose and electrical harness. Take out the cruise. Remove the brackets. Clean up the cruise (I used Fast Orange, my fingers, water to rinse, and paper towels to dry). You may want to remove the two screws that hold in the electrical thing inside the unit before washing, as you wouldn't want it to get rusty in there. Clean the brackets. Decide how much of the cruise you wish to paint. I just painted two of the 3 brackets as seen below. Reasseble and let dry. I noticed after putting everything back together and tightening down the screws, that the suction in the cruise was a little tighter. Maybe this will help my cruise, as it has always really sucked to use. It makes the car lunge. I am hoping the MSD ignition also helps this problem out a bit, 'cause if your gonna have the mother of all cruise controls (which is the Z cruise control unit), then you have to use it!!! Sorry, the pics are dark, but I took them at night with a QuickCam. I will post better pics (and installed pics) some other day.