Has anyone found windshield washer nozzles that work on the fiero. I made the mistake of blowing mine out with compressed air and now they just dribble. I looked for new ones to no avail. I purchased used ones but they are the same.
Once you force crap into nozzle openings, often very hard to remove by back flow of air. In very short, crap and hole shape can act as fishing hooks so crap doesn't remove easy.
If you have a "waterpik" or other things can focus water force into small space and spray output side, may help more. Anything hard you push into nozzles often do more damage even if removing the plug.
Don't use strong solvents to clean or "soak" them. That can easily made worse problems.
Yup, Getting used nozzles often have same problems.
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They are no longer clogged after I blew the compressed air through them. They just dribble like the whole is to big. I put in a new pump then ordered the used nozzles. Same out come so I picked up another pump same thing barely squirt past the wipers. The pumps are trico 11-510. Thanks olejoedad for the info about the cadddy
Likely find many hood mounted types and mod the old or make a new standoffs to work w/ them.
Could use those as is on the hood but ugly and big headache to plumb them.
Amen to that! Especially since the Frunk is hinged at the front, the nozzles would have to be at the back to spray the windshield and the windshield washer pump and reservoir are mounted close to the windshield on the left side. The piping losses would probably be so high that all you get out of the nozzles would be a dribble.
This has worked for me in the past when cleaning out windshield cleaner nozzles on a TR6. It may work for you. Find a twist tie from a loaf of bread or similar. Strip the plastic off leaving only the wire. Use the wire to loosen / force the gunk out. Used compressed air from the windshield side to completed the process. The wire is soft enough to bend around any bends within the nozzle. It's also rigid enough to "push" out gunk.
If this doesn't work, find a wrecked Fiero and scavenge the nylon nozzles. They are another part that is un available now so maybe we should all be pulling these off of the wrecked cars.
They are no longer clogged after I blew the compressed air through them. They just dribble like the whole is to big. I put in a new pump then ordered the used nozzles. Same out come so I picked up another pump same thing barely squirt past the wipers.
Did you check the supply piping to the nozzle? It could be blocked, cracked or clogged.
JDV, can you post a picture of what the nozzle unit locks like? including connection. There are a ton of replacements on Amazon ... you might be able to pick something close to original and go from there.
I did some checking. I hooked the fiero nozzles up to my corolla's hoses and they put out a decent spray pattern. I guess the trico pumps are junk. The only other pump is delco at 50 bucks and I don't want to spent that kind of money to find out they are junk/ counterfeit.
Originally posted by jdv: I did some checking. I hooked the fiero nozzles up to my corolla's hoses and they put out a decent spray pattern. I guess the trico pumps are junk. The only other pump is delco at 50 bucks and I don't want to spent that kind of money to find out they are junk/ counterfeit.
1. Need meter and often helper. (or meter w/ Hold or Max/Min function.) Check pump motors actually gets 12-14 volts. (~14v w/ engine running.) Leave plug on pump when testing.
Pump wiring goes thru Wiper motor board on car w/ delay wipers and board often have problems and/or can have iffy ground. So if sees low volts, check volts between power wire and car's frame too.
2. Check OE tubing and if there the check valve in the tube near the pump.
Tubing could pinch or blocked or valve is plugged/bad.
Remove the valve and bypass w/ small hard tube to test rest of soft tube.
This valve often fails because people have water or "summer" washer fluid then freeze in winter or Crap getting in the tank can plug up the valve.
