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Subject:Re: Stream Redirection- WAS: Windshield washer blockage
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:32:16 -0800

A medium-size safety pin in the rotating nozzle ball will move it to where
you need it.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Matt Drew <t3vanagon@gmail.com> wrote:

> This jogged my memory of an issue that I've been meaning to address for
> some
> time....
>
> My washers shoot the fluid directly up in the air.
> The only way I get any on the windshield itself is if I lightly tap the
> lever in order to get the washers to spit a weak squirt up - very
> inefficient and wasteful (and annoying).
>
> So how simple is this?
> Just grab something with a sharp point and pull the nozzle down so that the
> opening is pointing at the windshield?
>
> I'm sure it's simple, but my luck I'd wind up yanking on something that
> would cause the entire mechanism and washer assembly to need replacement!
> :o)
>
> --
> Drew, Las Vegas
> '90 GL "Blackbeard"
>

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