Hiya folks!

I bought my current bus in the LA area a couple of months ago. When I got it, the windshield washer pump didn't work. I recently pulled a good one out of a wrecker, swapped it in and now have a working pump.

While doing the swap, the I noticed the fluid in the reservoir (which was full, BTW), was the blue "summer/bug detergent" stuff. And there was this coating of blue hair gel type stuff along the entire bottom surface of the tank. Maybe 1/4 to 1/2 inch think. Gucky. I'm assuming this stuff is precipitate from the washer solution, and the solution in that tank could have been sitting in there, unused, for *years* for all I know. I cleaned the gunk out of the tank.

After swapping the pumps, I reinstalled the tank and all, filled the reservoir with plain water (just to test), and hopped into the driver's seat to activate the windshield washer.

My pump merrily buzzed away for 15 seconds of so, maybe getting the water up to the nozzles. Then one or two big gucky splats of thick blue hair gel gunk on the windshield (out of both nozzles), a few pitiable splots of water, then nothing. Pump motor still buzzing away, but nothing more coming out of the nozzle.

I figure that blue gel stuff has clogged up the plumbing between the pump and nozzles. I'd prefer not to remove all the plumbing to clean it out, since it looks pretty hard to get at. Questions:

1) Ideas of cleaning solutions I could put in the reservoir to dissolve this blue gunk in the tubing?

2) Directions or tips on removing and reinstalling the tubing between the pump and nozzles? I have no clue how those tubes are routed. Bentley is of absolutely no help in this regard.

Thanks!

T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tobin Copley Bowen Island, BC, Canada tobin.copley@ubc.ca

'82 westy 1.6L NA diesel ("Stinky") '97 son Russell ============= '99 daughter Margaret /_| |__| |__|:| clatter 1995: 'Round US, Mexico, Canada 15,000 mi O|. .| clatter! 1996: Vancouver to Inuvik, NWT 7,400 km ~-()-==----()-~ Previous buses: '76 westy deluxe (Daisy), '76 westy standard (Mango) http://www.sfu.ca/~tcopley/vw/