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Ford F-150 1998technical service bulletin

Bulletin 982690 · NHTSA communication 603578 · issued Apr 1, 1998

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Vehicle Speed Control
component
1998
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Vehicles with manual transmissions may have a customer concern of inoperative cruise control. *yc

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.