Windshield washer nozzle removal?
 

Would somebody be so kind as to inform me of the best way to remove these little critters? :eek:

There appears to be a couple of tabs on the underside of the hood but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to separate the nozzle from the stem underneath :confused: !

Thanks for replies! :)

The stem and nozzles are one piece and come out together. There are two expansion 'ears' that are part of the nozzle/stem assembly that compress as they pass through the good, and expand once through to lock the nozzle/stem combo in place in the sheet metal. I used a six inch piece of copper tubing (pressed up from the bottom of the stem) to compress the ears and simultaneously push the nozzle/stem assembly through the hole. 3/8 inch diameter if I remember correctly....

This was on a W123. Yours might be different. Whatever yours is....

Ditto! (see sig)

Thank you for the info. I'm not certain that I need to rmeove it but I am trying to figure out why I am only getting a 'sputter-y' kind of 'spurt', not a decent stream out onto the window. :(

The driver's side nozzle functions as it should. Any others ever have this issue? If so, what did you do to remedy it?

I just use a small pin to clear the nozzles from the outside.

Yeah, sorry, missed the sig.

The new nozzles are about $4 each. It seemed less trouble to just replace them than ream them out.....

Yeah I agree! I just made an assumption that they were a "$100" dealer part!!! :eek:

A visit to the dealer OR maybe...PHIL!? :)

I just rebuilt my washer system with all new "soft" parts. New tank grommet, new tubing, check valve, and nozzles. The whole bill came in under $22.

Doctor told me it was the prostate..... :eek::eek:

I've had that happen where the washer nozzle didn't have a "hard clog" in it, but there was some debris floating around in the tubing. The nozzle would start off spraying fine, but then quickly get choked off again.

I disconnected the tubes at the check valve (left them connected to the nozzles), then backflushed using a Water Pik (thrift store find) applied to the exits of the nozzles.

I wasn't doing this to be cheap, but I didn't have new parts ready at hand, and I wanted to get things working right then. With a little advance notice, the "all new parts" fix sounds pretty good to me, too.

The Water Pik trick worked fine for the washer nozzles, but I don't think I'd recommend it for JimmyL's, uh, situation. :D