Date:         Fri, 10 Nov 1995 13:13:16 PST
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Clay_Perry@we.xerox.com (Perry,Clay)
Subject:      RE: 71 Bus ignition switch

Steve,

I did this and it is tough, the books say there is a spring (there is ) 
 and that you can fish a wire into the mechanism and release it and the 
 core will come out (you cant). I ended up pulling the column mount 
 with the switch in it and thene carefully grinding away the outer 
 portion until the whole assembly could be removed. I then could reach 
 the leaf spring and remove the cylinder. I have heard that you can 
 drill a hole through the mounting bracket and reach the release spring 
 but you would have to know exactly where to drill.

Good Luck 
Clay


>Anybody replaced an ignition switch on an '71 Transporter recently?
>This one seems different from the switch on my old '69 bus. the '71
>needs only half a turn to go from "running" to "steering locked",
>while the '69 needed either 3/4 turn or 1 full turn (can't remember--
>it was a long time ago!)

>My questions are:

>1.) Are there any unusual hassles involved in the replacement?

>2.) Anyone got a working used one they wouldn't mind $selling?

>Steve Maher   smaher@gi.com   '71 VW Transporter