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Subject:Re: four-position wiper stalk, 78 bus
From:David Schwarze
Date:Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:52:01 -0800 (PST)

Pat Walsh writes:
> 
> You guys aren't by chance refering to the wash function, are you?  I know that
> on later busses the hose from the windshield washer tank runs up to a valve
> on the column and from there to the jets on the windshield.  If the washer
> tank wasn't pressurized, then moving the lever wouldn't appear to do anything.
> But I can't remember if this is the same lever as for the wipers, or a
> different stalk.

It's the same lever, but you get the wash function by pulling up on the lever,
towards your face.  :)  My four-position wiper doesn't do anything in
the down position either.

-David

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