> As for the ignition key working in the gas cap it depends on the year of your van.
> Not the case for 85 and earlier we have a gas cap key.  Somewhere it changed and
> I’m sort of remembering it was during 87, experts please correct on that.

Not an expert on keys, but my '87 (which had 40k miles on the clock when I bought it and was very original) used the ignition/door key for the gas cap. My '85 did not.  

Ron Salmon
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