Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 07:55:07 -0400
Reply-To: John Lauterbach <john@JHL.MGACOXMAIL.COM>
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From: John Lauterbach <john@JHL.MGACOXMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Automatric neutral safety / backup lights switch -- '84
Vanagon with sutomatic transmission
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Thank you, Dennis:
New parts have been ordered. Middle Georgia is complete opposite of
growing up in New jersey with state-run inspection stations (anyone old
enough to remember the lines?). No inspection here in Bibb County.
Anything on the road with a current tag that can get out of its own way
and not catch fire is street-legal by practice. A decent vehicle
inspection system would take so many cars and trucks off the road that
repair shops would be overwhelmed.
John
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
> Both the wiper bar and the contact block are wear items. The contacts
> in the block get loose in hosing and that wiper on shaft gets pitted
> and wears or burns away. Both should get changed as a set.
>
> Having working reverse lights is almost as important as brake lights.
> As bad as most state inspection programs are at least they get folks
> to get stuff fixed at some point.
>
> When I took my road test for the motor home I had to do a pre trip
> inspection including fully testing the air brake system and
> demonstrating I knew how.
>
> Dennis,
> From my phone.
> ________________________________
> From: John Lauterbach<mailto:john@JHL.MGACOXMAIL.COM>
> Sent: 7/31/2016 10:37 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM<mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Subject: Automatric neutral safety / backup lights switch -- '84
> Vanagon with sutomatic transmission
>
> My, Son, now 18, has reluctantly concluded that the only way he is
> going
> to get a GA drivers license is to take the road test in my Vanagon.
> He
> has heard that the inspectors giving the test do a safety check on the
> vehicle and that all lights including backup lights work must work. I
> had never bothered to find out why they didn't work when I purchased
> van
> in 1997. I had bought the contact that goes on the shift lever, but
> never replaced the bad one. When it got so worn that van would not
> start, I bypassed the switch. So, this past Friday night, my Son
> decides to fix the problems. I gave him the new contact (date on bag
> was 1999) and turned him loose on the van. He got everything working
> except that van will not start unless you push the shift lever to the
> right. Contacts on the switch appear to be good. It appears the
> switch
> needs to be loosened and pushed to the left and the screws
> retightened.
> Is this best way (other than buying new switch)?
>
> Thank you,
>
> John
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