Intermittent wipers questions

[SatiricalHen]

I finally found a Jeep with a fixed column and intermittent wipers. This truck has cruise control, but I don’t care about cruise control. Can I find an intermittent wiper stalk that has no cruise control and stick it in? Basically, is cruise control its own thing and I can just ditch the cruise stalk and wire, or does it go through the switch too?

 

 

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[eaglescout526]

No you can get a stalk without cruise with intermittent wipers. Only the cruise talk has a wire that leads down. But if its got pre H.O. cruise stuff I'm interested in it.

[Liketosmash]

Just went through this swapping in a tilt column with intermittent wipers and cruise control.  The intermittent wipers need a black box that is velcro'd under the lower dash trim and the switch inside the column is different somehow.   As for the wiper stalks, the wires on the stock are for the cruise control and have nothing to do with the intermittent wipers.  In my scouring of the junkyard I found about 20 stalks with cruise control and intermittent wipers but only found 1 stalk with intermittent wipers and no cruise control.  So it seems to be a more rare option to not have cruise control with the intermittent wipers.  This type of stalk was used on a huge number of American vehicles including Buick, Cadillac, Dodge, Chevy.

 

As far as the cruise control goes, I found there are at least 2 types and ultimately decided not to go through the trouble of adding it..  One type has a long wire that runs down to the middle of the steering column and has a flat card like connector.  The other has a more typical connector that is under a cover right where the stalk plugs in.    The steering column I pulled was from an older Wagoneer and had the flat card type.