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Does a windscreen washer pump need to be primed?
Scrabbling about under the wife's Xantia on Saturday, washer pump not working. It seems to go round but nowt comes out
It's one with two outlets, the REAR one works OK.
Swapped it out for a new used one from a scrappy and got the same.
I've now ordered a brand spanker off e-bay, but it later occurred to me that maybe I should have SUCKED the fluid through it to prime it?
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Have you tryed un pluging your washer pipes before your washer jets to see if there blocked.Some cars have a filter check thats not blocked if it has one.
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Thanks Paul.
Yes, I've done that Skinner, I replaced all the pipework and non return valve too as I couldn't either get to it, or clean it out, so re-routed it with new stuff. Jets have been cleaned too, but the pump wasn't even lifting water up a pipe, let alone out through the jets
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Really should not need to, only other reason I can think of is the the pump might be sucking air instead of water because of an air leak between the water bottle and the pump. Or even a soft pipe which is getting sucked flat and stopping the water flow into the pump.
No, it can't be that, the pump, like the one on the Scoob, fits directly into the washer bottle via a soft rubber grommet that acts as a seal.
That's why, every time I remove it, I end up wet through with a stream of windscreen washer fluid up my arm
Yes all understood. I imagine you must have checked the inlet to the pump for something blocking it. Could you feel any suction on your finger if you run the pump while disconnected from the bottle?
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Well, it's fixed!
Finally: new pump, new piping throughout, new non-return valve, and away it went..........
but NOT before I'd discovered that the new pump ran in reverse: it washed the rear windscreen when I started the front wipers, and vice-versa.
So the stupid thing ended up off AGAIN to replace pipework the opposite way round.
French cars! ;rolleyes:
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Finally: new pump, new piping throughout, new non-return valve, and away it went..........
but NOT before I'd discovered that the new pump ran in reverse: it washed the rear windscreen when I started the front wipers, and vice-versa.
So the stupid thing ended up off AGAIN to replace pipework the opposite way round.
French cars! ;rolleyes:
Glad you got it sorted, my old pug 406 used to drive me mad, little room to work on anything and pricey parts, whenever i fixed one thing i usually ended up having to buy associated bits
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Does a windscreen washer pump need to be primed?
