At last, a working screen washer!

[WarrenL]

After 18 years without a functioning screen washer (a car of Brown Rover's age does not require one for a WOF), I can now squirt water at my windscreen! Whilst other people were out enjoying their Saturday nights at the footy, or socialising with friends, or watching a movie, I was hunkered down in my garage, transplanting the pump I'd saved from the dead Rover 75 I wrecked a couple of years ago into the lid of Brown Rover's washer bottle. It entailed removing the dead pump and carefully filing the centre hole of the lid a little bigger until the cylindrical 75 pump sat tightly in place. I've now got to tidy up the plumbing and wiring a bit, but it's all working and I'm so pleased with the result that I'm starting to doubt that I'm entirely sane.

 

[So Cal V8]

I'm starting to doubt that I'm entirely sane.

+1 :shock:

Nice work Warren, now if you don't mind popping over here I have a few jobs that need doing but I'd like to go out on a Saturday night...

 

[GRTV8]

You will be able to see where your are going now - bit scary after driving by instinct for 18yrs .!! .
Good job by the way . Always satisfying doing DIY and avoiding a grease monkey botching something else in the process .
Gerald

 

[WarrenL]

It was a get-round-to-it that took me a long time to get round to, Gerald. In the early pre-internet days it was unavailability of spares, and a tendency to not care about such trifling problems. Then it was years of disuse - nothing got done to the car during that period. Then the internet enabled me to find my around the P6 world, but once I'd found potential replacements a combination of my inner Scrooge and other priorities prevented me from forking out. I had a good idea when I saved the pump from the 75, but laziness meant I didn't get around to doing something with it until I finally started clocking up some open road miles again and got sick of having to periodically stop and shovel the bugs off the windscreen.

Anyway, I'm very pleased with the result. It looks tidy (or it will when I've properly terminated and tidied the wiring), and it works spectacularly well. The Rover 75 pump has plenty of grunt. It practically blasts the bugs off.

...but I'd like to go out on a Saturday night...

No doubt you would. You've been married for how many years now?