Date:         Thu, 2 Dec 1999 07:20:14 -0800
Reply-To:     "Tom L. Neal" <jneal@NETCOM.COM>
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From:         "Tom L. Neal" <jneal@NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: No start problem
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> Then take off your key ring: pocket knives, measuring tapes, rabbit feet,
> bottle openers, small framed pictures of your sweetie at the beach, spare
> set of keys to Mom's, spare keys to the volunteer fire dept. truck, etc.
> Three or four keys only. Lots of keys bob and sway when your van goes down
> the road, wearing out the guts of your switch.

Keys do odd things.  Using a heavy key ring once driving down the road
the engine just quit.  Turned back on right away.  My theory then was
that the heaviness had caused the key to unturn in the switch.

But most interesting is the phantom horn on startup.  The horn would turn
on with the engine and stay honking until I banged the steering wheel.
Finally figured out a vagrant key was slipping into the crack of the
steering wheel joint and closing the circuit.  Only in a vanagon...it was
groaning because I had woken it up?

Cheers, Tom Neal