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Subject:=?utf-8?Q?Re:_All_wipers_on,_won=E2=80=99t_turn_off_=28fixed!=29?=
From:Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Date:Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:12:52 -0700

Thanks Bruce, heading off in next day or so. Planning on swinging by the fairy creek protest area , it’s on way to one of our fav camping sites, see if we can get by the blackshirts. If not we go onto klanawa via cowichan lake .

I’ve been dissatisfied by washers for years. I’ve cleaned pump and connections, added a check valve ( meh) and even another pump in-line. I’ve bought some Suzuki sx something something nozzles that might work, but haven’t done it.
Friend Simon put in some similar that I bought extras of. He’s very happy. More velocity in jet too, which surprised me .

I’ll get around to it someday. 

Bugs me more that the wipers come on when pump comes on, I want a second delay so screen is wet first. Hence my check valve experiment .

Ab

> On Aug 23, 2021, at 1:51 PM, Bruce Todd <beeceetee@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> BTW - now that you have sorted out that little mystery and we all in Vanagonland have all learned something profound yet again from someone else's experience (with pictures included)  - I have to ask whether you are satisfied with your windshield washer jets?  I recently replaced my stock jets with these little fellas...https://www.uniwerksdesign.com/product/vw-vanagon-windscreen-washer-jets/  
> 
> Available from other vendors as well.  My point being these are a cheap yet an awesome upgrade compared to what I was living with before.  Of course Alistair -  you will likely machine these from a block of some chunk of alloy kicking around the shop.
> 
> Anyway, enjoy the back road camping and hopefully there will be some rain to keep the forests from burning and sustain your happiness when turning on the wipers at your discretion.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 12:46 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Got a pic up on the blog, for what it’s worth.
>> 
>> https://shufti.blog/2021/08/23/vanagon-all-wipers-and-washers-stuck-on/
>> 
>> Alistair 
>> 
>> 
>> > On Aug 23, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Well that wasn’t that hard at all.
>> > After checking the relays ( was easy, why not) I pulled switch assembly off.
>> > 
>> > Yes, it was a switch. Was the combo front wash, rear wash contacts.
>> > 
>> > I’ll post a pic on the blog soon, but shirt story is that depressing the stalk, or pulling back on it, switches between front wash and rear wash ( and wipe).
>> > 
>> > Neutral position between two contacts, yeah it’s hard to picture.
>> > 
>> > But the two contacts were , in this case, both touching the central “selector” contact. Thus energizing both rear and front wash wipe constantly.
>> > 
>> > You know how in these type switch assemblies you have the brass power trace held in position by the plastic housing. I guess the grip is weak in this spot.
>> > 
>> > Bent, moved, pressed, things back to normal and wipers work as they should.
>> > 
>> > Ab
>> > 
>> >> On Aug 22, 2021, at 9:45 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote:

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