You can dry the inside of the lights and housings and lots of other things, if you
have a tank-type vacuum cleaner. Hook the hose to the air discharge. The air is drawn
over the motor and gets quite warm. I use it all the time for drying parts and even
the engine compartment on my '90 Vanagon after hosing it down with hot water.
Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "developtrust" <developtrust@HOME.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 7:31 AM
Subject: Cleaning the tail light too.

> Joel,
>
> Good call on the cleaning of the tail lights. I just cleaned my tail lights.
> You were right. They were filthy down in there. Cleaned the bulbs too. The
> bulbs were even dirtier. What a difference when you just clean the bulbs
> alone!
>
> Tail lights are  not as smooth as the headlights. More difficult to clean. A
> small brush would be good which I did not have. What did you use?
>
> But how did you dry the lights? I stuck absorbent paper towels down in each
> area to absorb the excess water and plan to let them air dry when the sun
> comes out.
>
>