In a message dated 4/16/07 12:13:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mjhart853@YAHOO.COM writes:

> 1. Intermittent wipers.
> My '87 Westy (GL) does not seem to have this function, whereas my '85 did,
> and I did find this useful (it actually does occasionally rain here in
> California Bay Area).
> (I've tried pushing down on the stalk, but any further presure would seem to
> lead
> to snapping it off!)
> Any suggestions on how to add this function?
>
> 2. Jump seat
> I'm planning to add a carat style jump seat on the passenger side of my '87
> Westy.
> I've picked up a seat from a junk yard and cleaned it up.
> I've also looked carefully at another '87 GL van with the jump seats to
> measure
> up the mounting points etc.
> My '87 Westy does not have the floor 'sockets' welded to floor or the plates
> behind
> the battery bulkhead, so I'm working out how to mount the seat.
> Has anyone done this job, and if so, how did you do it (take floor plates
> from a donor van;
> build something similar; etc...)
> Also, the seat belt I got with the seat is missing the plastic circular
> piece that contains
> the big spring to retract the belt (presumeably someone got to that before I
> did). Anybody
> know the part # of this small piece (of for the complete belt unit) and/or
> where I could get
> one of these from?
>
> Thanks,
>

the only "intermittant" wipers vanagons came with was to put the stalk in the
topmost setting. if you push on the stalk, it activates the rear wiper.   if
you pull on the stalk, it activates the front washers and wiper.

as for installing a jumpseat in a westy, i was going to write a whole long
install story here but  then i remembered about 20 other people already wrote
long install stories on how to do this very exact thing,  and they are all in
the archives.. so ....search the archives..

and they are here:      http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html

chris

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