It looks like relay 21 is your "Emerg. flash/turn sig. relay".

Try pulling it and see what happens.

Your Vanagon is a 90 or 91 ?

@ the list.

This is a far fetched suggestion, but if the flasher relay were
shorting out could 15 power to the relay be getting shorted to ground
thus killing the ignition?

On 4/1/14, TJ Hemrick <x53gunner@gmail.com> wrote:
>.....Anyhow, I was idling, shifted to R AMD the
> engine went dead stop.  No power to 4-ways or anything else. Lights on dash
> DO come on but so does the green turn indicator light and it's on steady if
> the key is turned. Very weird.  Relay 21 on the panel cycles about every 10
> seconds with the ignition off and not at all with the key turned.  Any
> hidden fuses or fusible links I might be overlooking?  All other fuses look
> good but I'll check again.  Never been stuck this bad and no clues.
>

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