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Windscreen washer 120-130

I just noticed one day that i actually have two windshield washing ports by the wipers. I found the lines under the dash but they simply end there. My service manual describes the washer motor, but unfortunately doesn't explain where it would be lokated if i actually had on. I can't figue where a switch would even go. Are these hard items to come by? (the resevour, motor, switch?)








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Windscreen washer 120-130

With the little nozzles right by the wiper posts, your car is a '65 or earlier. This means the little black wire harnessed with your generator wires is the washer pump power.
Get a gorgeous, barely used bottle and pump (+ bracket) from the passenger side, rear tire compartment in a 240 wagon. The bracket won't mount perfect on the passenger side inner fender, but while you are drilling and adding screws, add a ground wire.
Should be pretty easy to do. Third click out on your wiper switch is the pump.
Best,
Shayne.








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What year is your car?
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George Downs Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!








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Sorry, ive got a 64 122s, there are a couple of 122's in town i can scrounge parts off of but i think they are '65 and up. Will this be a problem?








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The earliest ones had a hand-pumped washer fed from a plastic bag (subject
to cuts and embrittlement) and the later ones had an electric
pump in a rectangular plastic box (subject to cracking and leaks).
Not sure which yours would be. Some had the pump forward on the right fender
well and others had them near the steering column or brake master cylinder.
You could probably put either one on yours. At least for the hand pump you
don't have to have wiring!
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George Downs Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!







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