I use a thin piece of welding rod, but any wire should work.

One trick to make this easier is to remove your sun visor.  The pivot mount
hole gives you an access point where you get a reasonably straight shot down
the pillar.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rob
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Driver's side "A" pillar wiring

How hard is it to get wires to go up or down that pillar? Any tricks
to the job?

Rob
becida@comcast.net

At  5/25/2011 10:17 PM, Reid Erikson wrote:
>For embarrassing reasons, I'm now in the process of getting wires
>down (or up) my driver's side "A" pillar. Just want to make sure I
>get all the needed wires while I still have everything apart. From
>the melted clump I'm left with, I believe there should be four:
>
>Red-power to dome and kitchen lights
>Black-to the rear defogger
>Brown-ground
>Brown/White-door switch
>
>Anything I'm missing?
>Thanks,
>Reid
>
>1990 GL Westy Full Camper