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On my coach

1-with the cruise control "off" you can adjust your engine idle speed with the resume and set buttons.

2-with the cruise control "on" your high idle will engage when you hit the resume button

Did you do a search?
Others have mentioned cleaning contacts on steering wheel.

Retarder is off/all the way forward?

So on the 2001 you have a smart steering wheel controller with no contacts or brushes. They use two springs for conductors and if your horn and wipers work they are fine, its a multiplex system. Later models used four springs and the second two were for background lighting. I do know on my 2001 coach that it works much better with the economy mode selected on the transmission control panel
Scott

On, set, resume will make it idle high, I use this a lot right after starting so air pressure can build. Off takes it back to normal. Does it do this?

Any codes being thrown?

Contacts, good idea to clean as others have said. You could also replace the relay, those are cheap and good for a spare, if it works. Hopefully someone will weigh in on the clicking.

The speed sensor that was replaced, is it a reputable brand? Did you bench test the resistance? How was the wiring? Did it have any areas that look sus?

On, set, resume will make it idle high, I use this a lot right after starting so air pressure can build. Off takes it back to normal. Does it do this?

Any codes being thrown?

Make sure your brake lights are not coming on with the clicking. Also move the retarder stick back and forth and back to off. The actual cruise control will not work with you parked there is a minimum speed that has to be reached.

I'm assuming the relay is in the compartment in front of the passenger seat,

Yes there is a breaker hid in there you will be looking for.

I don't recall the exact breaker number this A/M.  I do know it doesn't share a breaker with anything else that could be shorting out. It is rare to have one of those self rest breakers to fail but they do sometimes. I just got the video to load and it seems like you are dealing with 3 things. (the cruse not engaging,, the high idle, and the clicking) Now for the 10k questions to get more info to see if we can help get this figured out.

On the high idle you said at 600 "it kills" what does it kill? The engine or what? Or does it just stop dropping the RPM?  If I understand what you said you can move the idle between 600 to 800RPM. Is that correct?

The cruse not working and the clicking could be a short somewhere. If you find the breaker tripping and resetting then you need to find the short. If this is the case pull the control module and turn it over to see if you have one that has the PC board exposed. Check it out to see if you can see anything that appears to have let the smoke out.  If this looks good then the hunt gets a lot harder.

Mike

Make sure your brake lights are not coming on with the clicking. Also move the retarder stick back and forth and back to off. The actual cruise control will not work with you parked there is a minimum speed that has to be reached.

Yes, but the high idle should work while parked and it doesn't. So if the brake lights are coming on does it think the retarder is engaged? I'll have to check if the brake lights are coming on when pushing the cruise buttons.

So your saying that maybe the connections on the retarder are a possible cause? If that were the case wouldn't the retarder also not work intermittently? (Referring to moving the retarder stick back and forth)

So the parking brake engaged would have to enable fast idle function and isolate activate  cruise control off. Then swap function to enable cruise with parking brake released. The brake Light disconnect both. Retarder sets brake light with activated retarder. You figure out your fast idle and I think the cruise will participate. Verify power and keep going toward ECM with proper grounds and power. Also the brake switch has two pressure switches probably for DOT redundancy. Either will set lights.
Scott

Thanks sir,
So having a hard time finding the pressure switches, from most post I've seen they are in the generator fan compartment up front drivers side. I've looked all around that area and even under and can't find them. Where are they on yours since we have the same year and model.