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Subject:Re: oil light
From:Dan Beatty
Date:Thu, 2 Nov 1995 06:27:35 -0600 (CST)

At 09:30 PM 11/1/95 +0500, you wrote:
>>Get some contact cleaner from say,
>>Radio Shark. Clean the switch's male connection and the connectors female
>>socket. Before reassembling apply a generous coating of silicon dielectric
>>paste, this will seal the moisure and oxygen out.
>
>my rear light on my vanagon is always out, tap the plastic and on it
>comes...GRRR!   i have opened it up and cleaned and filed the connectors
>millions of times and even applied vaseline.  Would you reccomend your above
>measure to remedy this?
>

Which rear light <g>. You say all the time, does this mean with all the
doors closed and the key in your pocket? Westy/non Westy?

I wouldn't use vaseline, it is DD based and not really meant for this use..