At  10/8/2008 07:15 PM, Allan Streib wrote:

>Is there supposed to be any illumination of the HVAC controls?  Mine are
>totally dark and I'm not familiar with them enough yet to be able to
>know by feel what is what.
>
>Allan
>--
>1991 Vanagon GL

There is a bulb in the control panel, the last one I took apart was an '87.
You will have to take the levers out first.
As I recall there is plastic rivet upper left area and lower right
area. If you carefully work those areas you can find where they are.
The plastic rivets hold the plate in, the plate will pop out  and can
be popped back in when you are done. Be gentle when prying the plate off.
On the '87 the bulb was odd, I had to get a white adapter to replace
the bulb. It looked like this
http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=3587&search_phrase=dash%20lights&start=
, I got the adapter from a wrecking yard Vanagon. For all I know your
'91 might have them.

Rob
becida@comcast.net
An '84 Westy with a '93 Subaru 2.2 in Western Washington state