Electric washers into Daf 46

[Nick]

With the use of my car being of the "heavy everyday variety" I decided the one period extra I could actually do without (sorry purists) was the broken washer fluid squisher thingy on the dash, as with most of the rubber components on the car it had failed and simply washed the floor when I was using it..

I phoned the local factors and ordered a 12v inline water pump and set about wiring it up, I was sat at the wheel when I realised the switch that operates the wipers also had a symbol on it for squirting, pulling it didnt do anything so I got the multimeter out and sure enough, it made a large red wire go live when actuated with ignition on, now this got me thinking, I quickly whipped the pump onto the relay panel under the dash (pipes reached it a treat) and ran the live to the cable on the switch connector block, sure enough it worked a treat.
But... it gets even better...
On looking under the bonnet I noticed a pair of wires to the side of the brake master cylinder, one of these was red and had some plastic heat shrunk over its connector rendering it unusable, I got the cutters on it and stuck a test lamp on it, got in the car and used the switch again, sure enough, it lit the bulb, the moral of the story is, dont rush and sitck the pump under the dash, the wiring is there ready and waiting under the bonnet plain as the nose on your face. mount the pump next to the bottle, put the pipe going into the bottle onto the part marked "out" on the pump and run a fresh bit into the bottle from the side marked "IN" on the pump and hey presto.. more water than the washer jets have seen in their life..
Ive left mine under the dash for now as reckon one of the models must have a bottle with a built in motor and will fit the original holder, all I have to do is literally plug it in and its good to go..

Stick showing the symbol, barely visible..


Wiring under the bonnet still taped together in the factory tape


;D
click the piccy below for some washy action !!

[pauldaf44]

Ive also done this modification on Sophie by replacing the washer pull pump with a spare pull switch, borrowed the live from the wiper switch which sits next door and hey presto. 44 , 55 and 33 don't have the wipers on a stalk they are seperate switches and on mine sadly there was no factory wiring for one.






edited for Global Warming (trust me there's logic in there somewhere)

[Nick]

did you need to requote all my photos though? not much fun for people viewing this thread on a mobile device or slow network?

sorry just reread that and it sounded angry, it wasnt meant to. I was merely pointing out that some people do browse the forum using phones and mobile internet and it does mean unnesseary downloading for them

[macplaxton]

I was just thinking about the unnecessary requote of the whole lot when I eventually got to the next post...

Funnily enough, I'm on a mobile phone viewing this now, but fortunately on the house wifi.

[33grinder]

I do most of my browsing on iPhone so have deliberately made these threads have fewer posts before they flick round to the next page for that very reason, especially with photo heavy threads in mind.

Strangely I wouldn't get the video to work but I'll see that later on the PC.

[macplaxton]

Is that the iPhone sticking it's nose up at Flash video? Video works on my Motorola, but can be a bit slow due to buffering.

Sorry Nick going OT.

Top wiring spot there man! Now have you found a handy bigger washer bottle, the trouble I always find with older car, especially when they have been converted to electric washers, is that the bottle is only good for a trip to the end of the street some days.

[beckyman]

Not thought this through but my classic old Saab 900 has a huge bottle. 2nd hand Saab spares specialist? Where to mount it? Strange shape? Other makes?

[macplaxton]

Plenty of modern stuff has huge bottles hiding in the front wing.

The most weedy effort I've come across was the washer bag on two hooks in the luggage compartment of a Hillman Imp. You'd be lucky if you could get half a pint in it.

[Nick]

the colostomy special?? the humber had one as does the Roma, the bottle on the daf is very adequate ive found, and being easily removable simply carried inside for a rinse when need be, nothing on this car has been hard so far (apart from a few bits of the restoration)