Sounds to me like your ignition switch has begun to fail, Christian. It's not the ig. lock, but the white plastic switch at the bottom of the lock assembly. Access it by taking the plastic steering column shrouds off, 2 screws on the underside. The switch comes out after removing a small phillips screw from underneath, if I'm remembering correctly.
bob

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> Hi!
>
> The headlights on my 86 Vanagon Syncro won't turn on. All the other lights are
> fine (parking, flasher, back-up, etc).
> We have made some preliminery search but no success so far.
> We replaced the headlight switch, and checked the bulbs.
> It seems like power is not going to the headlights.
>
> But when I hold the high beam arm on the steering column, the high beams turn
> on, but they won't stay. I can hold it but there is no "click" - like you would
> usually have when you switch to high beam.
>
> We are going to do some more investigation, but if someone has any suggestion
> for something specific to look at, please feel free to share your opinions...
>
> :O)
>
> Thanks
>
> Christian
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