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

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 !

Thanks for replies!

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Dale

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....

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Bob
'82 300D Petrol B-G Metallic

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?

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Dale

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.....

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Bob
'82 300D Petrol B-G Metallic

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

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

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Dale

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.

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Bob
'82 300D Petrol B-G Metallic

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

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

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.