Cruise Control

[Jordan Tremblay]

I have a 2004 Sport Trac and my cruise control has been acting up lately. Over the past few weeks I have been back and forth the camp a few times and I use the cruise control most of the way on I-49. Two seperate times I was trying to use the cruise control and it just would not work. When i pressed the "on" button and then pressed the "set" button, the light on the instrument cluster would just flash once and not stay on. When the light flashes i press the "set" button again and it just flashes once, but the cruise control would not engage. After about 20 minutes I tried it again and it worked perfectly. Well this happend again to me last night, but this time it didn't start working again. But, this morning when I got in the truck on the way to work this morning, I tried it and it worked perfectly like nothing ever happened. Any idea what is wrong? Loose connection maybe or a switch going bad? Thanks in advance.

 

[Jimmy Lavoie]

I'd check the switch behind the brake pedal. I had a similar occurrence years ago with my Dakota and it was a loose connection at the pedal.

 

[David Griffith 2]

There was a recall on the cruise control switch. I'm not sure what years were affected but my 01 was..I got a letter and took it to the Ford dealership, was in and out in 10 mins.. I would look into it asap as the recall issue was that the switch would catch fire.. Hopefully someone with more knowledge on the recall will chime in...

 

[EddieS'04]

It could be the trip switch at the end of the mastercylinder. Since you have an '04 ST, probably not. I would suspect the switches on the steering. Also try tilting your steering wheel. There is a common problem with the gen1 trac having a short harness, in the column. The harness has been known to cause many electrical problems. There is a fix for it in projects...

 

[Kristi Lowry]

Please post if you find out what the problem is... my 03 does the same thing. I asked my mechanic about it (by phone) he said he could look at it, but most likely it would have to go to to the Ford dealer. sounds expensive I really miss my cruise control but I don't know how much I am willing to spend to have it fixed.



Kristi

 

[Jeremy Thorpe]

My 2003 Sport Trac was doing the same thing, the light on the cluster would just blink when you push cruise "on", then "set". I read on another Message board title on this same web site that the sensor on the master cylinder could be the problem, and that there was a recall on this part, but I also read that this is only if the sensor is red, and if it was black then you should be ok, well mine was black, so I checked all of my fuses, they were all good, so after reading this message board I moved the 2 cables coming out of the top of the throttle body around a little, and also unhooked and rehooked the connector just above the window washer tank on the right side of the engine compartment. Now it works again, not sure which of the 2 fixed it, and not sure how long it will stay fixed, but I will repost with any new info, hope this helps.