Date:         Sun, 5 Dec 2010 22:26:19 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Back Up Light Switch Location
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At 10:01 PM 12/5/2010, zzyzx wrote:
>Can anyone offer guidance on the location of the backup light switch.
>I guess it helps to know the kind of auto.
>1982 vanagon 4 speed?

On the watercooled it's on the left side of the (manual)
transmission, with the wires coming from the connection box on the
engine room forward wall.  There are two different plugs used, so if
you replace the switch you may have also replace the plug.  I don't
know if it's a hard line, but my '84 had one plug and my '85 the
other.  The earlier switch was more substantially built, but IIRC I
wasn't really impressed with the internals of either of them.  I
think I ended up rigging a relay to actually switch the lights and
used the official switch to drive the relay.  Not sure...

On the A/T the switch is part of the gear-selecting stuff up front.

Yours,
David