Ok, hands up, I screwed up!
Last time out I was complaining that the screen washer bottle and jets I’d fitted to the Sahara just weren’t up to the job and couldn’t reach the screen. Whenever you hit the screenwash button a rather pathetic spray would dribble onto the screen, and being honest, up into the back of the windscreen because of the low angle it managed.
I’d blamed this on the kit itself being designed for sport-type kit cars and therefore why would it be any good on a full size wind screen as they only normally spray up onto little aero-screens.
Last weekend I popped the bonnet to take a look at the pump to see if I could find out what sort of replacement size I might go for to replace it with and as I stood staring at the bottom of the water bottle, my left hand started a long slow rise up to my forehead where it opened up and slapped myself really quite hard….
Have a look at this picture and see if you can see why:
Those with not-so-eagle eyes might just spot that the pipe goes from the pump, loops up the photo then curls back round and…..gets squashed flat under the box next to it! (i’ve unplugged the cable to show how REALLY stupid this was….)
So I slackened off the slot head bolt, wiggled the pipe free and squashed it back into shape and then made sure it was out of the way when I screwed the bolt back down.
To check it was all working fine I then gingerly pressed the screen wash button….and watched as the blue spray shot clean over the top of the car and hit the garage a good 10 feet behind.
So, to my washer bottle and pump kit from Car Builder Solutions I offer my humblest apologies – 5 minutes with a sharp pin had the jets aligned properly and now I finally have a a nice clean windscreen whenever I want it.
So, as I noted earlier – DOH! DOH! DOH!
