Washer bottle woes!

[froggy]

Getting nearer to trying for an MOT, so today i decided to test the washers, no biggy or so i thought!
Filled the bottle and pressurised it from a normal foot pump, tried it and nothing, so i started pulling pipes, unblocking nozzles etc, eventually got it working, great time for a cup of tea!
Looked out of the kitchen window to see water dripping from the passenger side door (i live on a slight hill) went out to look and the floor was soaking wet with Screen wash, looks like the pressure blew past the hose on the back of the switch.Water everywhere.
Dont want this to happen all the time so is there an electric kit that someone can recommend OR an easy solution to my problem?
Have seen kits for sale at around £25 but this seems a bit high for a motor and a switch, is there another alternative?

 

[Araon]

get to your scrappy and get any washer that can be fitted in the space £10 with all the gubbins...

 

[froggy]

What size bottle fits?
Think i read somewhere that a ford fiesta bottle should work, any one adapted anything to suit?

 

[rustydiver]

mine packed up, or rather had a hole cut in it when the garage replaiced the lower front :evil: two years ago. I ended up knicking the one out of my M.G in the garage compleate with motor, easy to wire it up.
Must replaice it soon, getting the M.G on the road in the summer (i hope).

 

[froggy]

Did you fit the washer bottle in the same place or somewhere else?
Surely i would need some way of placing the bottle higher than the pump

 

[Araon]

Not sure what your getting at here

Most modern bottles have an integral pump so all you require is it connecting though a switch to 12v supply and the hose connecting up, the positioning/size depends on where you want it located or the other way is to rummage further and find an in line water pump and cut the hose in a suitable location and fit the pump, and switch etc...that way you keep the orig bottle see this example

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mk2-Mk3-Astra-hatchback-estate-windscreen-washer-pump_W0QQitemZ300222264933QQihZ020QQcategoryZ10404QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[froggy]

Yeah in-line pump, thinh its gong to be easier

 

[Shaggy]

But isn't it fun to pump up to bottle

 

[Araon]

not much fun when yer on the motorway with a windshield full of bugs and the pressure is dropping rapidly..... at least on the bug it was fed from the spare though that was fun when the wheel needed to be changed and Doh! its flat....

 

[Shaggy]

Are yes true but thats when you get the girl friend to climb out of the window and hang on the front to clean them off

 

[58herbie]

in the process of doing this mod to my westy, and converting original switch to leccy pump..will post pics soon as finished..hopefully tomorrow.


jon.

 

[rustydiver]

Did you fit the washer bottle in the same place or somewhere else?
Surely i would need some way of placing the bottle higher than the pump

Bottle just wedged into body work behind kick panel. Electeic motor inline in the washer tubing and wire a switch up to the motor and of you go squriting.

Mine was only a temporary measure and is still there 2 years later.

 

[froggy]

If i get chance either tomorrow or thursday i'm going to visit the local scrappy to see what i can acquire! :wink:
Think an in-line pump and a switch should be enough, will try and keep OG bottle unless something more appropriate comes along.

Is there any where else a bottle could be mounted?

 

[Araon]

Where ever you want basically its down to how much work you want to put into it....personally I'd stick with the OG bottle its nice a secure where it is and the kick panels fit it... the pump can be secured to any piece of tin under the dash area just dis the hoses to the switch re route and connect to the pump....

Whilst yer there keep your eye out for another one (its one of those must do jobs of mine) let us know how much....scrap yards seem to be a bit scarce where Im living now....spent half my life in the northeast rummaging through old wrecks with the old man.....

 

[speedwell68]

Electric washers are the tool of satan. Fix the stock one.

 

[Tofufi]

not much fun when yer on the motorway with a windshield full of bugs and the pressure is dropping rapidly..... at least on the bug it was fed from the spare though that was fun when the wheel needed to be changed and Doh! its flat....

The original mechanism prevented the tyre pressure from going below a certain pressure... think it had to be above 25psi for it to work

Hence, your spare would (should) never be flat due to using the washers...

 

[froggy]

Electric washers are the tool of satan. Fix the stock one.

Would rather be friends with satan than soaking wet stinking of screenwash LOL

 

[vwxyz]

ive found that the switch/valve on the dash not working is the problem most of the time (any body got a fix for this ?)
i mount a small halfords washer pump on top of the existing washer bottle bypassing the dash switch/valve .
wiring it to a 12v toggle switch on the dash for the power .
you also need to put a small hole in the top of the bottle to stop a vacumm forming or take the valve seat out of the air valve.