wds928

I've been trying to get the passenger side front drain hose to clear and managed to poke a hole in the hose. Not a big deal, I just loosened the headliner at the edge of the passenger door and took a look.

Small hole....., so I'll just use some pliers and pull the hose off and patch it up.

Ok, now the entire drain hose is on my workbench. It's about 3 feet long. I looked at the PET and saw a diagram, including the grommet, which guess is still in the body.

Now I need to put the hose back into the pillar!!!!

I'll remove the fender liner and the washer fluid reservoir tank (94 GTS). I saw a picture from a previous post by Tony in Las Veges. The hose goes through the grommet by about 3 inches. I think mine was pinched off before the grommet, as I couldn't get a 3/32nds coated cable through to the floor like I could on the driver side.

Anyone have any experience installing the drain hose?????

Thanks

Kevin in Atlanta

Coolant tank? Or did you mean washer fluid reservoir?

I am very interested in this effort. While I could not get the bicycle brake cable to go all the way through, i was able to get water to drain out the front drains. Not sure if that is a sufficient test because my leather headliner is pulling away a bit.

Pictures would be nice, too.

Alan

Bill,
I could not clean out my passenger side tube either - drivers side was OK... what did they do that made this prone to blockage I wonder. Do you have pics of the headliner end of this as you described...

I'm interested in this but haven't got any tips since I didn't even get as far as you!

Alan

wds928

Yes, I meant the washer fluid reservoir. I'll edit the original post.

Alan, I don't know why the passenger side is this way. I first used weed wacker string and that worked fine for the other three drains.

For the passenger front drain, I tried heavy guage vinyl coated cable, about 3/32nds inch. Was able to get it pretty far down, as far as the trimmer string went. I finally used a electricians friend, a wire fish, with the hook end snipped off. Poked a nice hole in the drain hose, as it makes the bend down the pillar.

I'll take some pics tonight and post.

This should be fun!!

wds928

Fixed. I removed the front passenger corner of the headliner and sunvisor, pulled the pillar interior trim and pulled the drain hose from the pillar.

Then had to remove the windshield washer bottle from the pass. side fender and removed the drain hose grommet.

The hose seems to have a kink about 3 inches from the bottom. Must have been the problem. Used silicone sealant to plug the holes, then taped over them.

Putting the hose back in the pillar was an adventure. I'll post pictures later, but essentially had to insert a 6 or 7 foot long 1/8th inch cable through the hose, taping both ends of the hose tightly to the cable. Then push the cable and hose from the bottom (from inside the fender). Using a bit of grease around the pillar top hole where the hose exits helps a bit.

Put the hose back onto the nipple of the sunroof drain after removing the cable from the hose, replaced the grommet, put the washer fluid reservoir back in, replaced the fender liner, front tire, then buttoned the interior back up.

The original problem of the sunroof not aligned was fixed by removing the sunroof motor and transmission, then manually aligning the cable ends. Put the sunroof back on it works fine.

I tested the drain holes and they empty as they should.