Thanks for your replies.� I was able to change out the ignition switch quite easily.� Only one problem...it still won't start.� I can pop the clutch to start it but the starter will not engage, not even a click.� I'm sure I had a bad switch before, because it would start for a while when I jiggled the key.� I did manage to solve the alt light problem.� I�swapped the alternator with a good one from an old engine.� It seems to me that all these problems should be related but I'm not making the connection (pun intended).� Any advice? :)
Thanks
Steve

From: neil N <musomuso@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ignition Switch?
To: "Stephen Cebula" <sfcebula@yahoo.com>
Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 7:10 PM

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Stephen Cebula <sfcebula@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I posted a couple of months ago about a bunch of electrical problems I've been having in my vanagon... (Alt/Ox light flickering on and off, stalling, Temp warning light comes on when engine is still cold).� Well it turns out that I do have a bad ignition switch.� It now only starts if I wiggle the key if it starts at all.� Does anyone have any good instruction on how to change out an ignition switch?� Am I even right in assuming that these problems are related?� It wansn't long after the ignition switch started acting up that the Alt/Ox lights began staing on constantly.
>
> Thanks a bunch.
> Steve

Not sure if these were the instructions I used, but IIRC, this way of
doing it will save time over what Bentley sez

http://www.vanagain.com/how2ign.htm

The Vanagon archives also has info on this.

Neil.

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