Date:         Thu, 2 Mar 2006 23:35:27 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: How do you replace the electical switch on the bottom of the
              lock cylinder?
Comments: To: David Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca>
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The short form is: pull the steering wheel, unplug the wiring, pull the
paddle switches, remove and replace the ignition switch.
         Easy as pie David!     :-)

On 3/2/06, David Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca> wrote:
>
> On the way to helping a friend who put himself in the ditch the other
> night
> during a big snow storm (2003 Subaru WRX - write off), the "X" circuit on
> the switch at the bottom of the key cylinder in my TriStar quit working -
> no
> more lights, no more wipers, no more blower - a definite Apollo 13 moment.
> In true Apollo 13 style though, with a call to home for verbal Bentley
> manual wiring diagrams, I jumpered the headed lights on, rescued my buddy
> and we all made if back safe and sound.
>
> Now, I have never had this switch fail before, I have two Vanagons here
> that
> I can pull parts from, but how do you remove the switch from the bottom of
> the lock cylinder - does someone have the Reader's Digest version on how
> to
> do it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> David Marshall
>
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> 4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road
> Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3
>
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--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com