Ok, so I know I have to do something involving a bike pump to get my washers to work :7 But could someone please take the time and trouble to explain in simple step-by-step terms that even a moron like me could follow?? K+ and more going out to whoever can help! I thank you.
you have a water bottle by your feet on the drivers side (right side of the van if you've a left hooker. You have to full this with water - I find a 1 litre bottle with a sports cap easiest for doing this without getting everything wet. You should also have a small diameter tube dangling around the bottle with a tyre valve on the end of this. You have to pump this up, bike pump or foot pump, until its pressurised. I don't recall the pressure sorry, but its not a lot. Don't over do it or the hose might pop off!
What they said ^^^^^ - plus ensure your jets are clear too by poking a needle through them. Max 42 psi (taken from owners manual).
Marvellous. Thoroughly helpful - thank you. Wasn't quite expecting a bike pump to be on my list of purchases for the bus though ;D
Hang on...electric you say? Yes that's definitely more my style...where can I get this piece of genius??
As I'm yet to use mine, and the talk of hoses popping off - has anyone bothered with hose clamps? I may do this to ease my mind (stressful enough with the fuel hoses lol).
To be honest with the standard system id forget to pump it up Ive seen somewhere standard looking washer bottles that have an electric pump fitted So eventually im going to fit one of those and try and fit a small microswitch inside the stalk
I have fitted an electric switch to the wiper switch : I took out the water valve fitted to the wiper switch. I made an aluminium bracket to hold the new switch, and then I fitted a very small switch with a brass pin melted into the press button head of the switch. The rounded end of the pin engaged with the mechanism inside the main wiper switch. The main problem was the captive nuts that hold the valve fall out inside the wiper switch mechanism. To recover these I had to strip down the wiper switch , not losing the little spring and slider that are an important part of the main wiper switch. I then found the plastic attached to the lever inside the switch had cracked . Some Araldite and a cable tie fixed that. Reassembled and now the nasty grating noise of the electric wiper pump starts when you pull up on the lever. Or when you climb in the van and you brush the lever. I will go and take a picture..
yes, an electric pump and switch is something you have to give a lot of consideration to. You don't want a modern whirring sound in your ear for 3 seconds taking your mind off the dull pain in the back of your head caused by your spine coming out the top of your head due to your low suspension now do you? Or God forbid you have one of them new fangled 'car radio' things in your dashboard. :
