BTW - now that you have sorted out that little mystery and we all in
Vanagonland have all learned something profound yet again from someone
else's experience (with pictures included)  - I have to ask whether you are
satisfied with your windshield washer jets?  I recently replaced my stock
jets with these little fellas...
https://www.uniwerksdesign.com/product/vw-vanagon-windscreen-washer-jets/

Available from other vendors as well.  My point being these are a cheap yet
an awesome upgrade compared to what I was living with before.  Of course
Alistair -  you will likely machine these from a block of some chunk of
alloy kicking around the shop.

Anyway, enjoy the back road camping and hopefully there will be some rain
to keep the forests from burning and sustain your happiness when turning on
the wipers at your discretion.

Cheers,

Bruce

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:46 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Got a pic up on the blog, for what it’s worth.
>
> https://shufti.blog/2021/08/23/vanagon-all-wipers-and-washers-stuck-on/
>
> Alistair
>
>
> > On Aug 23, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Well that wasn’t that hard at all.
> > After checking the relays ( was easy, why not) I pulled switch assembly
> off.
> >
> > Yes, it was a switch. Was the combo front wash, rear wash contacts.
> >
> > I’ll post a pic on the blog soon, but shirt story is that depressing the
> stalk, or pulling back on it, switches between front wash and rear wash (
> and wipe).
> >
> > Neutral position between two contacts, yeah it’s hard to picture.
> >
> > But the two contacts were , in this case, both touching the central
> “selector” contact. Thus energizing both rear and front wash wipe
> constantly.
> >
> > You know how in these type switch assemblies you have the brass power
> trace held in position by the plastic housing. I guess the grip is weak in
> this spot.
> >
> > Bent, moved, pressed, things back to normal and wipers work as they
> should.
> >
> > Ab
> >
> >> On Aug 22, 2021, at 9:45 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>