I've been fortunate that the Vanagon gods have been smiling on me recently.  A scary A/C problem (raining inside) fixed with the removal of only the grilles out back and cleaning a drain.  Shorting out all accessories w/2nd battery setup just before going away solved by only yanking the seat and pushing the spaghetti around until I found the fuse.  An unknown noise coming from the shifter/tranny fixed by tightening nuts and greasing.  Only problem there was wondering what a couple of bolts on the shifter box did.  On top of  all that, some things, well everything I ran into,  got attended to, and my swivel seat is all de-rusted and painted up shiny black rustoleum.
It's nice when things are simple.  It's not always that way.  This list helps make it as simple as possible.

Dave B.