1. Intermittent wipers/relay
I checked my Westy and found that I already have a #19 relay in position 4
(bottom row, 4th relay location from left). So I should ahve intermittent wipers????
I also have a relay #72 in the next location (5th from left) which the Bentley suggests
is for the rear wipers (I forgot to mention that I have a rear intermittent wiper that works fine).
SO, it seems that it's just the stalk that I need to modify (remove the blocking piece
inside the steering column)?? Well I needed to grease the horn ring to eliminate metal
scraping on metal & avoid 'Little Miss Sunshine' syndrome anyway, so I'll take a look
when I have the steering wheel off.

2. Rear facing jump seat install
Following Chris' advice, I just spent > 2 hours searching the archives. There are certainly
a lot of references to jump seats, but finding a real reference to the install is like
finding a needle in a haystack...
Best I can come up with is to install brass cups in the floor (cut holes in the wood Westy
subfloor), or weld/bolt in the real brackets from a donor van. I'm not convinced that the brass
cups would be strong enough in the event of an accident so I prefer to go the second approach.
If anyone has a pair of the floor brackets (from a junkyard van?), that would be great.

Thanks,
Mike
'87 Westy

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 8:22:37 AM
Subject: Re: Intermittent Wipers? and jumpseat install

Chris wrote;

"the only "intermittant" wipers vanagons came with was to put the stalk in
the
topmost setting."

On our Vanagons, Golfs and Jettas, the intermittent position is a downward
movement of the stalk.

Jake

On 4/16/07, JordanVw@aol.com <JordanVw@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/16/07 12:13:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mjhart853@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
>
> > 1. Intermittent wipers.
> > My '87 Westy (GL) does not seem to have this function, whereas my '85
> did,
> > and I did find this useful (it actually does occasionally rain here in
> > California Bay Area).
> > (I've tried pushing down on the stalk, but any further presure would
> seem to
> > lead
> > to snapping it off!)
> > Any suggestions on how to add this function?
> >
> > 2. Jump seat
> > I'm planning to add a carat style jump seat on the passenger side of my
> '87
> > Westy.
> > I've picked up a seat from a junk yard and cleaned it up.
> > I've also looked carefully at another '87 GL van with the jump seats to
> > measure
> > up the mounting points etc.
> > My '87 Westy does not have the floor 'sockets' welded to floor or the
> plates
> > behind
> > the battery bulkhead, so I'm working out how to mount the seat.
> > Has anyone done this job, and if so, how did you do it (take floor
> plates
> > from a donor van;
> > build something similar; etc...)
> > Also, the seat belt I got with the seat is missing the plastic circular
> > piece that contains
> > the big spring to retract the belt (presumeably someone got to that
> before I
> > did). Anybody
> > know the part # of this small piece (of for the complete belt unit)
> and/or
> > where I could get
> > one of these from?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>
> the only "intermittant" wipers vanagons came with was to put the stalk in
> the
> topmost setting. if you push on the stalk, it activates the rear wiper.
> if
> you pull on the stalk, it activates the front washers and wiper.
>
> as for installing a jumpseat in a westy, i was going to write a whole long
> install story here but  then i remembered about 20 other people already
> wrote
> long install stories on how to do this very exact thing,  and they are all
> in
> the archives.. so ....search the archives..
>
> and they are here:      http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html
>
>
> chris
>
>
>
>
> **************************************
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>

--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com

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