Date:         Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:38:00 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Windshield washer blockage
Comments: To: Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
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well, IF the motor is pumping ( and it's possible the washer motors runs
fine, but the impeller is disconnencted from the motor shaft ) ..........
but if it's acutally pumping......
the usual clog is at the nozzles.
The best tool I've found to clean those out is  torch cleaning
tips.........that you'd buy at a welder supply place.  A whole little kit of
varous sizes of stiff wire, made just for cleaning out small orifices.
Before I did it that way, I would unstrand a regular piece of electrical
wire......to get a real small piece of wire that way.....but it's too
flexible really.
using a pin........I haven't had much luck with.

Iff you're washer motor has power to it, but is dead..........then that
sounds like a dead washer motor of course.
Assuming that both power and ground to the washer pump are good.
wherever that wire grounds............if it didn't make contact , that would
also keep the motor from running.
Need to check the ground side as well as the power side of all circuits,
especailly since our beloved vans are 20 + years old, and VW makes their
ground connections kinda mickey mouse.
scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <becida@COMCAST.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:21 PM
Subject: Windshield washer blockage


> Before I get into this... any advice on windshield washer blockage? '84
> westy
>
> My washer does not put water on the windshield. I get voltage to the
> motor when the washer is activated, I have continuity thru the motor
> when I checked it with the meter.
> I'm thinking blockage and I wonder if anyone has had this problem
> before and if they remember how they solved it.
>
>
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net