Ok. i looked in the search and i couldnt find what i was looking for. My pump makes nmo sound at all and there is fluid so my guess is it is our. AAP has one for 20 bucks. Does anyone know where it is (i cant find it in the Chiltons book) and some instaltion tips?

 

washer fluid pump is mounted to the washer tank itself on most cars. mines a '91, and that's where mine is at. just remove whatever fluid you have in there (use a hand pump or something), disconnect the electrical connector and the pump just kinda' pulls away from the tank. just wedge a screwdriver between it and the tank and pry it outwards - carefully. there'll be a seal on it, too, usually re-useable, so just pop it on to the new one and snap 'er in place, hook 'er up and fill'er up! good luck - it's a piece of cake.

KAM

 

i got a 83, i replaced it and no noise what so ever, and everything is connected

 

On an 83 I believe it's the kind that goes up into the wiper motor cover. That's the electric ones anyway. Follow the hose from the tank back and you will find it. There were a few vac. models I saw at the scrap yard. Never dealt with those.

Not sure what year they started putting them in the tank it's self. Up to 87 at least, it was in the wiper motor cover.

 

Take the cover off and check for corrosion and power at the leads with someone pressing the actuator ahead. Should hear the pump do it's little zinging noise. Cover is held on with 3 or 4 torx screws.

 

you talking about the pump or the motor itself?

 

ttt

 

On the 82-83 models, the washer pump is mounted under the cover on top of the motor. Check the connections as HalfInchWrench suggests, but it's possible you need a new pump assembly.

 

i bought the pump... can motor be bad?? nothing looked corroded

 

What did your pump include, just the diaphragm kit or a new pump motor as well?

 

i bought it from advnaced auto.... its that black outer peice with all the innerds that come with attached to the old one with 4 lobe cam though

 

On the GM replacement pumps, you had to swap over the switch module from inside, maybe your aftermarket one is the same?

 

i looked inside them.. they both looked the same

 

The stock piston-type pump on the older cars is such junk. Not just these cars, but all through the decades that they were used. Washer fluid actually dissolves the plastic over time. What a stupid choice of materials.

What I did to my 83 was to get a pair of the newer wiper arms with the squirters in the arms, that sort of drop the fluid on the windhield directly and evenly, instead of spraying pulses at it from a distance; and put one of those $12 universal replacement pumps in the washer line, bypassing the factory stupidity altogether. I simply hooked the replacement pump up to the same 2 wires that go the little solenoid in the wiper motor. I used make slide terminals on my extender wires, such that I didn't have to hack any wires or any pumps or anything else whatsoever, except that the lines now come together in a "T" where they used to hook to the pump.

Worked so good, I did it to 2 of my other cars the next night.

 

There was recently a post suggesting the same thing, but with one of the newer pump styles.

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...threadid=28681

i also took off the sprayers and attached the on-arm spray thingies instead. works better. spreads evenly as the arms move.