They are the easiest thing to make. All you need is a length of plastic
tubing wrapped a dozen or so times round one of the flexible coolant hoses
thus making a heat exchanger. The ends of the loop are cut into the existing
washer tubes with suitable connectors from your local accessory store. A
contributory factor to freezing screen wash nozzles is the presence of one
way valves in the tubing, designed to ensure that the tube is always charged
with fluid. This ensures that when a freeze comes the pipe is full of fluid
and thus forms a frozen plug at the nozzle.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Otter" <jonas@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:00 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Some guys never learn
>
> Here in Europe there are a lot of places where we get a fair amount of
snow. With salt on the road to clear snow and ice, washers are *essential*.
Even with alcohol in the washer to keep the water from freezing, it still
freezes in the nozzles even if the rest of the system isn't frozen. Frozen
washer nozzles are a BIG nuisance. I would love heated nozzles.
>
> > I'm still pondering the logic behind the heated windshield
> > washers.
>
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