Well, welcome to the club!  The heat/ventilation controls are obtuse, but Go
Westy has a good description:
http://www.gowesty.com/library_article.php?id=311.  Searching the archives
can answer a lot of questions too:
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=vanagon 

I recommend you read the entire Go Westy tech library on Vanagons, and get a
copy of the Bentley factory manual--it's required for ownership, and you
will build knowledge quickly. 

Have fun!

Stuart
'85 Westy

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
DA
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 5:52 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Fuse box and rear wiper operation

I recently purchased a 1984
Vanagon and have numerous questions but most pressing is knowing what fuses
go with what as I do not have an owners manual nor a fuse cover which I
expect would explain the fuses.� There are 12 fuses and then 2 and 2 just to
the left of the steering wheel?� Second, is how to operate the rear wiper?

By the way, just drove it from Nanaimo BC to eastern Ontario with no issues
except I added a couple quarts of 20W50 during the journey.� Mind you, I
don't have heat or certain on how to operate the toggles for air movement
and defrost ops but adventure continues. LOL Dan-O