Did you know the windshield washer squirters are apparently, infinitely adjustable?

I had a clogged up nozzle on the squirter...and all I wanted to do was quickly clean it out and go home from work. I took a few strands of copper from a piece of 16ga wire and proceeded to push them through the pisser hole......(of the windshield squirter you perverts). I figured that would clear it right up...but noooooooo.

Now they didn't hit the windshield at all. One went over the car, and one shot to the side. Which, might be good for tailgaters or un-suspecting pedestrians........but I actually want them to clean my windshield off.

So, I proceed to pop the hood, and somehow end up breaking the tab off of my hood latch.....which I just bought new 3 weeks ago.........great. Now I can't open the hood to remove the squirter for cleaning and figuring out what the hell was going on.

Out come the needlenose pliers and the hood release found out who it's master was in short fashion. On to removing the nozzle we go. Unplug the electrical connector-
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wait a second.....
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why in the good Lord's name is there even an electrical connector on the nozzles themselves?

Anyway, get the connector off and proceed to pop off the water line. Whoops.....off to scrounge around the shop for a vacuum tee that I just cracked in-half. Argh......found one. Replaced.

Finally get the darn nozzle off the hood, and take it inside where there's lights and it's warm. Apparently, someone thought it was a good idea to make the actual nozzles inside the squirter housing able to rotate half the distance to the goal.

So now not only do I need to clean the nozzles out......(compressed air and aforementioned copper strands worked great BTW)but also align the tiny nozzles to hit the middle portion of the windshield. Sounds easy right? Well......it should have been, but this guy just broke his hood latch and aligning them required me to open and close the hood about thirty fvcking times with pliers and a flathead screwdriver to get them perfect. They just roll around, with little resistance......kind of like a ball and socket design, which takes very little pressure and a steady hand to get them where you want them. For me, removing, adjusting, and replacing was the method used here. You can do it with them installed and the hood closed, but I was using a ballpoint pen as a "tool" and that didn't allow for enough clearance of the cowl plastic. I'm a little OCD when it comes to things like this.....It would drive me nuts if they weren't evenly spread across the windshield.

And that was just the drivers side.

This concludes my rant on how a stupidly simple project can turn out to be such a PITA.

 

Take off your grille so its easier to open the hood.

 

Its pissed you are selling her so she is going to make everything as hard as possible to do from now on : )

 

That would have been soooooooooo much easier.

 

noted.

 

Older style ones on top of the hood FTW. LOL!

 

Dude I'm a genius

 

Yes and no. Easier to adjust, yes but IMO dont look as good.

 

ntrly

 

don't get ahead of yourself there chief.