Jeff,
I feel your pain!
This is just the sort of thing that prevents me attempting any but the
simplest maintenance on my '85--& why I keep
a Bentley as a "courtesy" to others better versed than I--who find it
challenging to replace a rachet socket.

Will some clever & ambitious person organize the archival information of
this list?-- into a decent, real life, repair manual for Vanagons, including
troubleshooting classic Vanagon problems, like "bucking" & Vanagon Syndrome?

My previous VW mechanic foolishly trusted Bentley for my van's  recent fuel
line replacement--& ended up installing a critical plastic pipe UNDER
instead of OVER the linkage.  This omission in the Bentley caused a
traumatic & embarrassing debacle in a filling station five minutes after I
left the repair shop, when gas flooded two bays & the station was
immediately shut down.

Good luck, Jeff
Phaedra
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