Hi,
Since the weather has got a little milder I have been sorting one or two things in the early evenings - the sort of jobs that don't need too much light...
One task I set out to do was re-mounting the washer bottle which had been removed during extensive welding. When I realised that - although the RRC has a pump, it has no headlight washers, but the Disco has - I recalled an idea for improving the RRC's windscreen washers using the Disco's headlight jets to better cope with mud.
Here is how it went:
An unsuspecting headlight washer jet earlier today :)
Cut here:
The plumbing was a mixture of original pipe (incorporating the dual non-return valve) and some spare petrol pipe that I had lying around. Unlike normal washer pipes this is located with jubilee clips due to the higher pressures expected:
The original headlamp washer relay was used since it incorporates a timer that limits each squirt to about one second - this is probably all that's needed and will help eek out the fluid supply. It was re-wired (so that it doesn't require the headlights to be on) by looping the blue (headlight-sensor wire) back into the main live feed. After testing I have decided that I will change this so that the blue wire is supplied via a dashboard-switched feed thus giving me the option of whether or not to have the SS jets coming on with the normal ones:
Here is a shot of them in action :dance: :clap: :dance: :clap:
I have now realised that I have positioned mine wrongly: In order for the jets to hit the required place on the screen I have had to set them seriously cross-eyed - they should have been positioned in the bonnet dip about level with the existing jets and half-way between them and the rise. But anyway - here is a shot of them in the wrong place:
It's not an original idea of mine, but it's an easy and effective mod that took only a bit over an hour to do. I commend it to the house!
Roger
