My 04 road king cruise control will not set. I beleive I need to initalize the system.
Does anyone know the sequence to initalize it?

 

For starters, has it been working properly lately, is the red light on the on/off switch glowing?

John TN

 

What I found to work well is to backtrack to the last thing you did and usually you find the problem where you last worked.

 

The cruise quit after I replaced the crank sensor. I also readjusted the throttle cables at the same time. The red light does come on with on off switch but the set and resume switch does not set. I checked out the wiring to the cruise module and it was good. I can't find anything in the do it yourself forum about cruise control.

 

John
There's nothing in the DIY forum on this, try these fixes and see what you get, there's also no relearn proceedure that I can find.

1. If the cruise engaged lamp does not illuminate at all (but yours does), check for one or more of the following conditions:

a. SET/RESUME switch faulty or not wired correctly.
b. Broken or pinched wire to SET switch or cruise module.
c. Cruise engaged lamp burned out or miswired. Lamp is turned on by module supplied ground.
d. Main 10-place connector not plugged into cruise module.
e. Faulty cruise main switch and associated wiring.
f. No module ground at Terminal E of 10-place module connector.
g. Brake light on constantly.
h. Throttle cables too tight.**
i. Bad cruise control fuse.

 

Since you were doing a throttle cable adjustment it is possible that you may need to do an initialization as you said in your post. Here is the scoop from the service manual:
The engine should be at normal operating temperature and throttle and idle cables should be correctly adjusted. To set the correct cable lash proceed as follows:
1. Push the Cruise Switch on the right handlebar to RESUME and hold it.
2. Turn the Cruise ON/OFF switch to ON.
3. Turn the Ignition switch to IGNITION.
4. Start the engine. The green Cruise Enabled/Engaged lamp in the speedometer will illuminate. Wait 3 Seconds for the lamp to go off.
5. Release the Cruise Switch from the RESUME position
6. Push the Cruise switch to RESUME and hold. Cruise will pull in cable until change in RPM is detected. The number of motor steps required to rev the engine is stored in memory.
7. After engine revs and Cruise Enabled/Engaged lamp is extginguished release the Cruise Switch from the RESUME position.
8 Turn the ignition switch to off.

Good Luck!

 

Does this only work on newer bikes?? I have a '94 that has the same issue..

 

nfe,
Those steps are from the 2005 Touring Service Manual. Sorry but I don't have any idea when design changes may have been made that would affect whether it would work or not. You can give it a try -- given that your cruise control is not working now, I can't imagine that procedure causing any other problem.
TC

 

the guys i ride with have cc theyre alwasy speeding up and slowing down bunch of squirrels.....just lot the throttle with that twisty thing and go like hell!!

 

If you readjusted the cables, I bet it's not adjusted properly and the roll off cable switch is not letting the cruise come on. I have found this cable adjustment is a little touchy. Just a thought.

John TN.