Windshield Washer Options

[lsintampa]

75 914/4 2.0

I removed the old tubes for the windshield washer system - all of them. Read the tech article about hooking up motor to the system. Seems very straight forward.

There was a spare tire line that ran to the washer container. I assume it pressurized the tank so when you wanted to squirt some cleaner on your windshield there was something to push the fluid out.

A tube ran out the bottom all the way to the column then went into some turnabout nipple thing and came back out to the nozzles.

My question:

Is that turn around nipple thing the "release" of pressure that will allow fluid to flow?

That means it's mechanical? Or is it? Just curious how it works.

I noticed that there also is a switch that makes contact in the steering column when you pull back on the wiper arm. On my car, the black/brown wire up front was just cut off and hanging out. I'm not sure if I have intermittent wipers or not. There's no sign of a relay of any kind on the brace where the wiper motor is. Don't know how to tell, unless all 75's had em.

Anyway, I'm hoping that black/brown goes hot when the wiper arm is pulled back, cause that's how I hooking the washer motor up.

I'm really starting to enjoy this thing... gets better each day.

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Len