At 02:09 PM 11/11/96 -0600, you wrote:

>>Ref the 4 ventilation levers in the dash of my '87 Vanagon - how the
bloody . . . 

  aha! grasshopper have dim eyes! ;) there's a trick: you have to take a small
>flat thin object and look on the BOTTOM side of the lever ends ... there's
>a little click-tab under there. push the tab up with the SFTO (small thin
>flat object) and the end of the lever pulls right off. note, if you will,
>the relative positioning of the lever end!! it only goes back on correctly
>one way ... otherwise, it'll bump the next lever down. that is, they go
>back on in pairs, one facing up, the next one down facing down. that sort
>of thing.
>
>hope it helps.
>joel
>
Yup - sure did/does help;  after clean-jerking the 1st one out, the above
became obvious.
Now, about  those of us with age-challenged eyes . . . . 

Austin