I have Erma (the name of my car) inspected and am legal on the roads now.

I bought a secondhand washer reservoir and washer motor. I cleaned them up and they look pretty. Now I need to know where to place the bracket and where to run the tube and wire through the firewall.

Patrick sent a page from his Volvo instruction book that places the reservoir right by the battery. I think I've seen them placed by the Flasher unit on the other side of the engine bay as well. Do you have photos of your engine bay and where you placed the unit and ran your tubing?

By the way, I am a novice mechanic but I cleaned out the heater intake and lubed all the controls. Unfortunately the air control mechanism broke (the little arm) that closes the baffle to restrict airflow coming out the back of the unit against the firewall. the little arm rusted in half right as it enters the heater box. What is best -- to just fix the air flow strictly open or closed for now?

You wouldn't have believed the amount of dirt and pine needles I got out of the area underneath the aluminum cowl grating. I also removed a lot of stuff right above the heating element.

I appreciate your help.