Hi,

The windscreen washers on my BAMKII sedan wont squirt anymore. The squirter motor still works (I can hear it) and the line from the fluid bottle to the squirters is clear. ( I removed it from where it attaches to the passenger side squirter and blew back into the bottle and got covered in washer fluid).

I have cleared the nozzles with pins to make sure they aren't clogged. Anyone else have this problem and if so how did you fix it?

Ta.

Sargo

unplug the jets, see if the water squirts out there, if it does, just blocked jets, if it doesnt, start following the line back. Also this may sound weird, but try it with the bonnet open. On my old EL everytime you shut the bonnet, the line was sitting in the wrong place and was crimping the line, I'd open the bonnet to test it again, and it worked. Felt like a doofas afterwards.....

Edited 04/04/07 02:01 AM04/04/07 02:01 AM by Dagabond

Ta for that, the jets seem to be clear (I can blow through them) and having the bonnet open didn't make any difference. Appreciate your input though..

Have had exactly the same problem with my car about a year ago.

Did exactly what you did, blew through the lines, checked the jets weren't blocked, etc.

Then all of a sudden they started working again and haven't played up since!

Still have no idea why they started working again.

On a serious note, a lot of BA's had an issue where the fluid flowed back into the reservoir leaving the lines dry. The effect is that you can activate the washer, hear the pump working but nothing happens. BUT. Hold the washer switch down long enough and hey presto!

Just need to give the pump enough time to fill the lines back up. I still have this issue on the Phoon.

http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30508

Cheers Bundoora and Dags, I will run that sucka for 20 secs or so and see if that sorts it. I was beginning to think I had stuffed something around the resorvior bottle when I was fitting my monza cooler.....

Will keep trying...

This is freaking me out. I timed the pump amd had it running for 30 seconds. No good. It would seem there is a backflow prevention device on the line into the reservoir. I can blow through the line from the connection under the passenger side washer nozzle and I get water gushing out of the lid of the reservoir. But if I try and pressurise the reservoir by blowing into the lid, there is a blockage and nothing (no water, no air) out the end of the line under the passenger side nozzle.

Does anyone know if this is correct?

All sorted, thanks to all who replied.

Removed the stone guard from under the front spoiler on the LH side, removed the inner guard and pulled the washer pump motor out of the bottle. It has a screen on it which was completely blocked with gorilla snot...

This appears to form when one uses aftermarket additives for windscreen washer fluid (Armour All brand), and it congeales in the bottom.

I was alerted to this phenomenon by a gent on the fordforums.com.au site, I am off to thank him now..