Tampa 928s

I'm sanding the hood how do you remove those squirter's without not breaking them?

LT Texan

built in plastic clips

from the under hood side, squeeze and push out

Alan

Even if you break them they are quite cheap to replace & still available.

Alan

JHowell37

And replacing them might be a good idea since you'll have fresh paint on the car.

southpaw51

Replace them. If the car's been repainted, they are most likely painted and are not worth the time to restore.

6mil928

Anybody know the price? Roger have them?

RyanPerrella

really? they are cheap? sound good, usually those damn things are chaulk full of dried wax and crap

Good to know

SteveG

'85. Related washer problem: I spent 4 hours cursing and removing the pump from above the pass wheel bay. Found the hose to the hood popped off at the pump. I will clamp or glue that on. I know the hoses in the hood are an example of Porsche overengineering. I'm thinking there would be less back pressure on the pump if I remove the extra hoses and check valves. this would also remove the high intensity system. What will remain is one hose from the pump followed by a heck valve after the round connector that fits into the hood, followed by a "T" and a hose to each squirter? Any reason not to do this?

Alan

If everything is clean and operational there shouldn't be any appreciable difference in pressure with without. What you propose is probably workable but minus intensive. Check valves near to the nozzles help reduce evap loss as well as avoid cross pumping between systems - without them close to the nozzles hard water will tend to clog up the nozzles more... and with only a single check valve you will get some nozzle leakage on cornering - a pain creating water stains around the nozzles...

Alan

dr bob

You guys do run distilled water in your washers, right? Unless you are really plagued with film buildup on the glass, distilled water does a credible job cleaning the glass. Leaks/dribbles/etc are less obvious on the paint too.

My biggest use for the washers is when I accidentally bump the stalk and trigger the pump spray for a few seconds. Ditto on the headlight washers.

FWIW, the check valves, hose and T fittings are cheap enough to just replace them when they get rusty inside. Rust from the springs is the biggest contaminent in my system these days. Thought about disconnecting the power to the pumps, but then I couldn't brag that everything works as designed.

WallyP

At over $40 each, I wouldn't call them cheap...
Windshield Washer - Jet (heated) '84-'92; P/N 928.628.077.00.70B

Alan

Yes I was actually thinking of the earlier unheated ones - much cheaper.

Though the $40 is still not horribly bad its not close to what I was thinking - seems like the changeover to these heated ones was in '84 rather than '87 as I thought...

Alan