washers...you've gotta have washers..

...I know this sounds a bit stupid...but here goes..I have a 55 reg Defender 90 csw

The screen washer has given up the ghost...when I push the wash button, I can see water struggling to come out of the jets...but only a drop or so...really feeble...I've tried to clear it with a needle...but I think I need to remove the nozzle altogether..?
Do I get at this from behind the dash?

And how much work is involved please?

Cheers!

maybe an even dafter question but have you checked your washer water level?

bobbler said:

maybe an even dafter question but have you checked your washer water level?

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yeah....the back screen washer works just fine and they're both on the same resevoir...but I like your thinking chap...

Is the pump working?

If the pump is working, you should hear it and the switch itself is working then its a dash out job I'm afraid unless you have very small hands and can fit through the ash tray hole when its removed. Its not a big job though just a bit annoying having to strip so much to get at it.

Tifa said:

...I know this sounds a bit stupid...but here goes..I have a 55 reg Defender 90 csw

The screen washer has given up the ghost...when I push the wash button, I can see water struggling to come out of the jets...but only a drop or so...really feeble...I've tried to clear it with a needle...but I think I need to remove the nozzle altogether..?
Do I get at this from behind the dash?

And how much work is involved please?

Cheers!

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To get at the jet its a dashboard out job. To get at the pumps/reservoir its a headlight removal to get at it. Try getting some fuse wire into the nozzles so you can go deeper but for both to be just feeble sounds like the blockage is not in the individual jets but further down the system or just behind the jet. Could be a kinked or leaking tube presuming the pump is working. You have 2 pumps.
If you have to remove the dash try taking the tube off first if you can. If it pumps, its the jets. If not try sucking any crap out out of the tube. If no joy, go to the headlight option and remove the tube for the screen... if it pumps ok you are getting closer!

i had this problem not so long back i stuck a pin in and it went deep :mooning:
maybe get 1 of those big pins and play with it more also dont have them pointing to close to the windscreen or they do dribble,well mine did lol

If its not a pin job, then Id remove the pipe that connects to the pump and clear out, could be just be a simple blockage

Had that on the Range Rover, so I hooked up the pipe to an air line.. worked a treat

kinked hose somewhere? have you traced the hose?

G

Griffdowg said:

kinked hose somewhere? have you traced the hose?

G

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not yet...but it sounds like a plan...
fu*king hell....dash out eh?.....how many hours should I shedule for that one guys? I take it , that it's a weekender..?

Tifa said:

not yet...but it sounds like a plan...
fu*king hell....dash out eh?.....how many hours should I shedule for that one guys? I take it , that it's a weekender..?

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A couple of hours only out and back in. Replacing the jet 1 minute when you get that far. I think the windscreen washer jet is first part they start with in the factory and they build a Defender around it.