so appatently you didn't read the washington post article last week about
the vanagon listserve... well, i'll bet that it is a power socket.  Some
busses have a few of these, and some (like mine) have none.
Cheers!@
Matthew

Matthew Pollard          "Racing with the wind and flirting with death
Dept. Of Chemistry        So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath"
University of Idaho
www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, gatorxray wrote:

> Hi all,
>  82 Westy diesel has a silver thing to the left of the heater controls about the size of a dime.
> Looks like a light bulb socket. It is not the coldstart knob,that is 1 inch down and to the right.
> I put a test light up to it and it is hot..