GreenDen07
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My question to everyone is after a couple of paragraphs, but might not make sense unless I do a little describing first, so please bear with.
Rained today, and noticed the rear washer wasn't working. Later, did some "Rear Washer" searches here, and happened on the "front heated washer" threads. While looking for the heater (which has been removed, BTW, and also the 60A fuse), I saw 3 black lines above left wheel well between the large fuse box and fender, 1 being the hood cable (although it looks like a washer line, like Punisher66 discovered in Dec 2010), another 1 going from firewall to between fuse box and fender (and further to the reservoir I soon discovered), and another 1 coming from the transmission area, but ending near the fuse box, with an open end of the plastic "hose".
I finally saw the line it was supposed to connect to, a line coming from the reservoir towards the fuse box and ending by it, running along the other washer line and release cable. This end was also open, but its end consists of a very short rubber hose, connected to a very short plastic hose, then another very short rubber hose. I connected them, and it was late and dark and not raining, so I didn't test it, but I fully expect to have a working rear washer now.
Question: when watching the AlphaTherm video that shows how to install the newer heater, he looked for and found the connector section of the "FRONT" line. This is where I'm confused. Only 1 of my 2 washer lines has this connector, and it's probably the rear one. This conclusion is based on -- 1) the front washers both work, and 2) the "open-ended lines" I discovered, and knowing the rear washer didn't work. And as someone answered in the heater thread, the 2 front washer nozzles are fed with only 1 hose from the reservoir. My line without the connector goes straight from the reservoir to the firewall. I'm assuming the original line could not have been one continuous piece, because one end would have gone to the heater, with the other piece going from the heater to the firewall. HERE'S the QUESTION: But when the "repair" was done, instead of connecting the 2 ends with a rubber connector (or rubber connector-plastic connector-rubber connector like the piece that does exist), could they have replaced the entire 2 separate lines with one continuous piece? Since the line goes into the firewall, that looks like a lot of work to put that line behind there...there's a few pieces that would need to be removed for sure to get access to where you need to go. I'll have to cut it if/when I put in the newer heater.
I asked my daughter-in-law earlier, who has a late-model Suburban, if they ever had any rear washer problems, and she said no. I said I needed to go to the forum site and see if this is a common problem. I told her the cause would be a bad motor, or fuse, or a disconnected hose, in which case there would be fluid squirting somewhere it shouldn't. I never noticed fluid dripping from the wheel well, but wasn't really really looking there either, although I should have been looking "somewhere".
Question for Punisher66 - did you ever find the other end ?
Thx - Dav H
Rained today, and noticed the rear washer wasn't working. Later, did some "Rear Washer" searches here, and happened on the "front heated washer" threads. While looking for the heater (which has been removed, BTW, and also the 60A fuse), I saw 3 black lines above left wheel well between the large fuse box and fender, 1 being the hood cable (although it looks like a washer line, like Punisher66 discovered in Dec 2010), another 1 going from firewall to between fuse box and fender (and further to the reservoir I soon discovered), and another 1 coming from the transmission area, but ending near the fuse box, with an open end of the plastic "hose".
I finally saw the line it was supposed to connect to, a line coming from the reservoir towards the fuse box and ending by it, running along the other washer line and release cable. This end was also open, but its end consists of a very short rubber hose, connected to a very short plastic hose, then another very short rubber hose. I connected them, and it was late and dark and not raining, so I didn't test it, but I fully expect to have a working rear washer now.
Question: when watching the AlphaTherm video that shows how to install the newer heater, he looked for and found the connector section of the "FRONT" line. This is where I'm confused. Only 1 of my 2 washer lines has this connector, and it's probably the rear one. This conclusion is based on -- 1) the front washers both work, and 2) the "open-ended lines" I discovered, and knowing the rear washer didn't work. And as someone answered in the heater thread, the 2 front washer nozzles are fed with only 1 hose from the reservoir. My line without the connector goes straight from the reservoir to the firewall. I'm assuming the original line could not have been one continuous piece, because one end would have gone to the heater, with the other piece going from the heater to the firewall. HERE'S the QUESTION: But when the "repair" was done, instead of connecting the 2 ends with a rubber connector (or rubber connector-plastic connector-rubber connector like the piece that does exist), could they have replaced the entire 2 separate lines with one continuous piece? Since the line goes into the firewall, that looks like a lot of work to put that line behind there...there's a few pieces that would need to be removed for sure to get access to where you need to go. I'll have to cut it if/when I put in the newer heater.
I asked my daughter-in-law earlier, who has a late-model Suburban, if they ever had any rear washer problems, and she said no. I said I needed to go to the forum site and see if this is a common problem. I told her the cause would be a bad motor, or fuse, or a disconnected hose, in which case there would be fluid squirting somewhere it shouldn't. I never noticed fluid dripping from the wheel well, but wasn't really really looking there either, although I should have been looking "somewhere".
Question for Punisher66 - did you ever find the other end ?
Thx - Dav H
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