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Subject:Re: Intermittent wiper Relay ?
From:Sudhir Desai
Date:Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:02:49 -0400

if your van came with intermittent, you just need to swap relays.
if your van does not have intermittent from the factory, you need to
remove the plastic bit. :)

On 2010-04-21, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Whoaaa!
> You guys have me confused now....
> Chris says all you have to do is just swap out the relays, and someone else
> says you have to do something to the wiper stalk?
> What's the whole story?
> Thanks, Anthony'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>
> --- On Wed, 4/21/10, jordanvw@AOL.COM <jordanvw@AOL.COM> wrote:
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> From: jordanvw@AOL.COM <jordanvw@AOL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Intermittent wiper Relay ?
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 8:49 AM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 11:36 pm
> Subject: Re: Intermittent wiper Relay ?
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> whats the issue here?  you simply remove your existing #19 wiper relay and
> install the #99 one  in its place, and use the wiper stalk to set the
> intervals.
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> Mr. Bentley says that it is an option on my year & shows how to
> install the option if it is not ordered that way from the factory by
> pulling the plastic piece, but of course assumes that I know how to do
> that?
>
> Maybe tomorrow?
>
> Tom-I love plug & play, kinda like big tires?
>
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Richard A Jones wrote:
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>> Tom:
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>> In my '81, when I bought the "19" relay many years ago, I was
>> disappointed, after I removed the plastic wedge, to find I
>> still had no intermittent wiping.
>>
>> Closer look at the wiper switch and I saw that it was NOT wired
>> to do it. So in '81 they wired vans for "with" and for "without"
>> intermittent. Or maybe it was the fuse panel that had no wires
>> "behind" where the "19" plugged in.
>>
>> I'm assuming that at some point they gave up and wired them
>> all for "with", but where does Detlev fall?
>>
>> Hope it's not "before" 'cause you'll love playing with the
>> operation of the "99" module.
>>
>> Richard
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