Windshield Washers

I’m not sure why some projects just catch my attention - probably because they can be finished up in one night’s work. 

Here’s another one that isn’t “mission-critical”, but finally having nice working windshield wipers it seemed like having a good washer setup would be nice.

It’s a bit of a parts conglomeration, but it was cheap (~$10) and works well.

Finding adaptable nozzles was the hardest part.  These came off a Volvo, and work well on two accounts.  First, they will secure into a round hole (most nozzles use a kind of cross-shaped hole punched in the car’s hood), and they also allow adjustment of the angle of the stream by bending the metal ends.  Most nozzles I ran across were fixed in this regard, and the angle of the w/s to hood is much greater on the Jeep.


Here they are mounted on the cowl of the Jeep.  I put just a dab of silicon under them to hold them down and hopefully seal the holes well.  Note that these holes existed already, not sure what was mounted in this spot, but I only enlarged existing holes:


Here’s the reservoir, an ‘80’s era CJ unit a friend gave me.


The pump on the reservoir was shot, by chance I grabbed this one from the rear of a Ford Explorer, and it was a nice press fit into the Jeep reservoir.  I siliconed around it for good measure:


Here’s the reservoir mounted on the driver’s side fender, tucked back in where it shouldn’t interfere with the power brake setup destined for this spot.


This project would have been half as expensive if I had remembered to snatch some hose and a “T” fitting at the junkyard.  I used standard vaccum hose and a vaccum line “T” fitting from Autozone to plumb the system.

The only additional cost was a momentary toggle switch to mount in the dash:


I don’t expect it to last, but a re-organized dash is in the works for the Jeep as well, with all high-quality switches going in at that time.

After a bit of re-aiming at the nozzles we have pretty good coverage:

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