Tube from washer bottle
Discussion
When giving my Griff a service I found that a previous owner had diverted the washer bottle pipe so it runs behind the heat shield and then through the clutch master cylinder cover (he had cut a slot in it). I would like to run it back through the hole in the inner wing but for the life of me, can't find a way through (I've spent about an hour pushing cable access rods etc. to try and find a way through).
Before I go and buy a Sealey borescope, has anybody had this little dilemma and got any ideas...?
I guess if I do end up buying a borescope then it can be used by others with similar problems in the West Berkshire area
Before I go and buy a Sealey borescope, has anybody had this little dilemma and got any ideas...?
I guess if I do end up buying a borescope then it can be used by others with similar problems in the West Berkshire area
Pete
Mine just runs through the inner wing and comes out at the carbon canister. Plenty of room on mine as long as it doesn't foul on the air con pipe work. Where is it fouling? Is it between the carbon canister and the inspection cover at the narrow bit above the centre of the wheel ie the narrowest bit? If so it is doable but probably using some rods
Ian
Mine just runs through the inner wing and comes out at the carbon canister. Plenty of room on mine as long as it doesn't foul on the air con pipe work. Where is it fouling? Is it between the carbon canister and the inspection cover at the narrow bit above the centre of the wheel ie the narrowest bit? If so it is doable but probably using some rods
Ian
Ian, it's not fouling. I guess sometime in the past there was a problem with the washer bottle pipe so a previous owner re-routed it from the bottle, behind the heat shield and in through the clutch master cylinder cover (cutting a dirty great slot in the cover) and siliconing up the hole in the inner wing. I want to route it back, as it should be, from the bottle into the inner wing and then back, however I can't find a way through, hence my thought that I will have to buy a borescope so I can find the route.
The main reason I want to do this is tidy up the underbonnet and remake the clutch master cylinder cover, putting rivnuts underneath and using some nice stainless socket button screws with a silicone gasket. I hate all the silicone smeared around, it just looks a mess. It will still look a mess if I have the washer bottle tube sticking out of it.
I am planning to make a glass fiber mould so I can make new clutch master cylinder covers and I am also planning to fabricate a similar cover for the brake master cylinder so you don't have to seal it in with another smear of silicone around it but this is all for the new year.
I guess I am on my own on this one and I can see a nice Sealey VS8221 Borescope winging its way to me as a post-Christmas present...! Pete
The main reason I want to do this is tidy up the underbonnet and remake the clutch master cylinder cover, putting rivnuts underneath and using some nice stainless socket button screws with a silicone gasket. I hate all the silicone smeared around, it just looks a mess. It will still look a mess if I have the washer bottle tube sticking out of it.
I am planning to make a glass fiber mould so I can make new clutch master cylinder covers and I am also planning to fabricate a similar cover for the brake master cylinder so you don't have to seal it in with another smear of silicone around it but this is all for the new year.
I guess I am on my own on this one and I can see a nice Sealey VS8221 Borescope winging its way to me as a post-Christmas present...! Pete
To go up the inner wing I think you need to use the small access by removing the wing grommets (throttle / brake servo) as a staging point and drill an access hole so you can pull a line from headlight to access hole then access hole to clutch cover IYSWIM. There are like 3 layers to the inner wing, so you drill hole for access where its never seen and just packing with foam afterwards should be fine.
It's damned fiddly and complicated by foam stuffed in the wing recesses, but I have converted a Griff so that the purge line goes up and out with the throttle rather than the std routing via the steering rack.
It's damned fiddly and complicated by foam stuffed in the wing recesses, but I have converted a Griff so that the purge line goes up and out with the throttle rather than the std routing via the steering rack.
You may have given me a clue. I assumed that when the tube went through the hole into the inner wing that it carried on up inside the wing but from your post it doesn't, it goes down to the steering rack and across. I will check that out when I get home. Thanks for the tip. I do relaise that it is going to be a right barsteward, whichever way I do it, Pete
Pete Mac said:
You may have given me a clue. I assumed that when the tube went through the hole into the inner wing that it carried on up inside the wing but from your post it doesn't, it goes down to the steering rack and across. I will check that out when I get home. Thanks for the tip. I do relaise that it is going to be a right barsteward, whichever way I do it, Pete
NOoooooo....What I was saying was that I had intimate experience rerouting the the purge valve pipe to the plenum so it comes out near the brake reservoir. That then followed the same route as the washer tube but broke through to the upper/outer inner wing to join the throttle cable (and share grommmet).
To get up the lower/inner inner wing I think you have to create a similar hole so that you can get a line through as I said, so that you can then pull the tube through both sections.
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