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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #15 on: 30 August 2017, 07:02:43 »

I tried that, Albs, and it runs into many unnecessary pages and won't format properly - and prints in landscape mode, too!  :(

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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #16 on: 30 August 2017, 08:27:21 »

I tried that, Albs, and it runs into many unnecessary pages and won't format properly - and prints in landscape mode, too!  :(

Ron.

It will all make sense when you open the bonnet  :y

Really is dead simple to lift the pump motor out and check the filter, will take less than 30 seconds  :y
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #17 on: 30 August 2017, 09:32:17 »

Thanks Tunnie - your encouragement makes me feel better about tackling it. Just waiting for the weather to be kinder.....
A simple job on an Omega? Really?
Not April 1st., is it? ;D

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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #18 on: 30 August 2017, 12:36:31 »

Tunnie, you really were lifting my leg!
If only I lived on your planet, where this job could be completed in 30 seconds, I'd be a happy bunny.

Ok, this is how it worked:-
Firstly, I managed to pull out the level sensor, and got a waterfall, eventually got it seated and no more leaks - so far.
Next, I found the correct pump and tried to "unclip" it, but the hoses in the way wouldn't let me. I cleared a little space, gained some cuts and bruises and after much wiggling, jiggling and Anglo-Saxon epithets, removed the pump. The spigot on the pump felt gritty, so I went in search of the filter.
Torch in hand, I saw it - but no way could I get it out.
I replaced the pump and tried to wash the screen - not a drop came out.
The only water on the screen came from the sky, so I'm on a coffee break now and cleaning my cuts ready for another try when it stops piddling down....

Thirty seconds? Thirty minutes at least so far!  :'(

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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #19 on: 30 August 2017, 12:49:07 »

Tunnie, you really were lifting my leg!
If only I lived on your planet, where this job could be completed in 30 seconds, I'd be a happy bunny.

Ok, this is how it worked:-
Firstly, I managed to pull out the level sensor, and got a waterfall, eventually got it seated and no more leaks - so far.
Next, I found the correct pump and tried to "unclip" it, but the hoses in the way wouldn't let me. I cleared a little space, gained some cuts and bruises and after much wiggling, jiggling and Anglo-Saxon epithets, removed the pump. The spigot on the pump felt gritty, so I went in search of the filter.
Torch in hand, I saw it - but no way could I get it out.
I replaced the pump and tried to wash the screen - not a drop came out.
The only water on the screen came from the sky, so I'm on a coffee break now and cleaning my cuts ready for another try when it stops piddling down....

Thirty seconds? Thirty minutes at least so far!  :'(

Ron.
Well just to cheer you up Ron, it all comes out a lot easier then it goes back in,  :( ;D
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #20 on: 30 August 2017, 12:53:49 »

Or, to put it the way you weren't actually saying - having got it out, it's a bar steward to replace it!
And I haven't even got near to removing the filter.....

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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #21 on: 30 August 2017, 13:24:20 »

If it was not pishing it down right now, I'd go out to the 3.2 and record me doing it to prove it can be done in said time frame  :P
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #22 on: 30 August 2017, 13:30:24 »

From memory the pump pulls out, no clips as such. It just slots into the washer tank...
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #23 on: 30 August 2017, 13:34:54 »

  ....,
so I went in search of the filter.
Torch in hand, I saw it - but no way could I get it out.
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Don't push it into the bottle/tank .....  ::) ::)
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #24 on: 30 August 2017, 13:52:30 »

You have checked that the pump is actually working?


My car failed the MOT on the headlamp washers not working, and when I replaced the pump I realised that they've never worked in the 7 years I've owned the car.
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #25 on: 30 August 2017, 15:53:17 »

Yes Nick; before I "mended" it, there was at least some screenwash getting on to the screen: there's plenty of free water hitting now, courtesy of god!  ;D
Andy, I was fearful of pushing that grommet into thre tank, but I can't even reach it with my large hands - I'll have to find a sylph-like dolly bird to get her fingers in it for me?
Tunnie, you got me into this, so go out and get wet! Only joking....probably!

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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #26 on: 30 August 2017, 16:35:10 »

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 I'll have to find a sylph-like dolly bird to get her fingers in it for me? .....

I would have thought your mind would have then wandered from washer bottle faults  ;D ;D
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #27 on: 30 August 2017, 17:15:33 »

So pump is out, but not gauze?  The gauze just lifts out, with a little resistance, as the rubber clips into the bottle.

Water will drain out when pump removed, obviously. Ignore it.
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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #28 on: 31 August 2017, 13:56:12 »

Firstly gents, thanks for all your help and guidance - problem solved!
The rumoured 30 seconds to do the job was just a wind-up, surely?
My skinny-fimgered son managed to get the grommet/filter out this morning after I moved the big air intake trumpet out of the way and sure enough, it did have some white jelly-like substance on its eyehole........ :o
It cleared easily under the tap, but I would like to clean/fluch the reservoit - easy job?
A few more scratches and bruises later, pump back in, no leaks anywhere and good strong jets on the screen, but so enthusiastic that they washed the roof!
A pin redirected them, and now I'm a happy bunny.
Thanks again for your patience and advice, gents; much appreciated.  :y :y :y

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Re: Poor screenwasher performance.
« Reply #29 on: 31 August 2017, 17:50:12 »

As I said in my earlier post, with pump out, shove a hose in the bottle filler...  ...letting it drain out of hole where pump would sit.

Going forward, if you had that white stuff, your screen wash strength has been too weak.,
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