Re: 5kS Washer pump question

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

It is likely that the washer fluid lines from the pump to the washer nozzles
have frozen up. In cold temperatures, the underhood temperature doesn't get
high enough the thaw them out. If you don't have a heated bay to park the
car in, pull off the lines, take them into the house, and let them thaw.
Blow out the old fluid. I did this very thing on a VW bug in Kapuskasing
at -50F one cold winter day - ever since I have used washer fluid with
plenty of freeze protection!

HTH

Fred Munro
'91 200q  266k km
-----Original Message-----
From: G. Benedikt Rochow <rochow@segosf.hlo.dec.com>
To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 10:20 AM
Subject: 5kS Washer pump question


>
>('84 5000S auto-trans)
>
>Back in the country and extra-cold NE wheater, I found the washer pump
>emitting one little squirt (unless that dripped onto the windshield from
>somewhere else), and then nothing.
>
>As expected, the reservoir looked empty as far as I could see, and I
>filled it with Prestone de-icer wash fluid. (Old stuff was summer fluid)
>
>As before, the pump audibly runs, but nothing else happens.
>
>I figured stuff was frozen then, but after driving more than 40 minutes
>today, there's still nothing.
>
>
>Any ideas, BTDTs?
>Does this pump die upon running dry?
>
>BTW, the level in the reservoir is not going down, so it's
>not a leak after the pump.
>
>
>TIA,
>-gbr
>
>