On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@yahoo.com> wrote: > I posted a couple of months ago about a bunch of electrical problems I've been having in my vanagon... (Alt/Ox light flickering on and off, stalling, Temp warning light comes on when engine is still cold). Well it turns out that I do have a bad ignition switch. It now only starts if I wiggle the key if it starts at all. Does anyone have any good instruction on how to change out an ignition switch? Am I even right in assuming that these problems are related? It wansn't long after the ignition switch started acting up that the Alt/Ox lights began staing on constantly. > > Thanks a bunch. > Steve
Not sure if these were the instructions I used, but IIRC, this way of doing it will save time over what Bentley sez http://www.vanagain.com/how2ign.htm The Vanagon archives also has info on this. Neil.
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