Austin;
I have been able to "pull" them out by grasping them at the shaft with
needle nose vice grips. If you are not careful you can slip and strip
the knob off. The shaft has a shoulder which must clear the
dashboard.Position the one you are working on in the middle and the rest
to the right or left for best angle of attack.
Good Luck
Ken Lewis
kdlewis@juno.com
86 VW crewcab
85 VW Vanagon GL
60 356 coupe

On Mon, 11 Nov 1996 02:02:58 -0600 Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM> writes:
>Ref the 4 ventilation levers in the dash of my '87 Vanagon - how the
bloody
>heck does one remove them (as in I need to replace the fan switch; yeah,
you
>can fake it by bending the facia, remove the radio, etc)?  In other
VeeWee's
>in the past these levers would just pull straight out, but not these!
>
>Austin