Hi all, just a quick post to let anyone else out there with a leaky washer bottle(causing dash light to come on and annoy) that I cured mine. The leak was from the motor itself not the bottle or pipe work. If anyone wants to know the procedure to get at it iam willing to post what I did if requested.
Leaky washer bottle
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Ok, sorry didn't take pics always forget until its all back together.
Right, having checked that all jets acctualy work so as to discount the hoses going to screen and headlights as mine was a slow leak, approx 3 hrs to bring the light on. I figured that it must be the bottle wich is in the drivers wheel arch.
Jacked the car up and removed the wheel, removed the rear section of inner wheel liner,a few 8mm bolts and a couple of the top bolts of the front section of wheel arch liner because they pass through both sections, you have to be reasonably forceful to get it out, I found pulling the more pliable section close to the stut allowed it to buckle and come away from the wing, this exposes the washer bottle, at the bottom of the bottle there is a plate protecting it held in with i think 7x 10mm bolts, 2 quite deep ones between the bottle and the wing requiring an extension bar, and there is one bolt underneath going verticaly,needs 10mm spanner. Once the plate is off you can get at the pump. I had a good snoop around with a torch having dried everything off with kitchen roll and then topped up the bottle to see what happened? eventualy drips appeared at the base of the bottle, I then removed the pump and stuck my pinky in the hole as it were(to stop the water peeing out) and re-dried it off with kitchen roll to try and ascertain if it was the bottle leaking? couldn't see anyting and no drips? so I looked at the pump, it turns out that where the outer casing meets the spouty bit of the pump had become unstuck a bit, just enough to allow water to escape and was probably worse when under load. Dried it off, teased it apart to drop super glue around the join and hey presto all done. Put it all back together and job done. The inner linning by the way goes back in easier than you think when your removing it, I put the section back in the same way I removed it, outer edge of the wing in first so as to firstly get a good fit and secondly so you don't potentialy scratch or damage the wheel arch(painted section) then just push the rest into place, I thought it might be a strugle as I allways think these things never go back quite the same, thats why iam usualy very carefull when removing things.
Hope this is useful to someone else with similar a problem and if you think I missed something feel free to ask.
Right, having checked that all jets acctualy work so as to discount the hoses going to screen and headlights as mine was a slow leak, approx 3 hrs to bring the light on. I figured that it must be the bottle wich is in the drivers wheel arch.
Jacked the car up and removed the wheel, removed the rear section of inner wheel liner,a few 8mm bolts and a couple of the top bolts of the front section of wheel arch liner because they pass through both sections, you have to be reasonably forceful to get it out, I found pulling the more pliable section close to the stut allowed it to buckle and come away from the wing, this exposes the washer bottle, at the bottom of the bottle there is a plate protecting it held in with i think 7x 10mm bolts, 2 quite deep ones between the bottle and the wing requiring an extension bar, and there is one bolt underneath going verticaly,needs 10mm spanner. Once the plate is off you can get at the pump. I had a good snoop around with a torch having dried everything off with kitchen roll and then topped up the bottle to see what happened? eventualy drips appeared at the base of the bottle, I then removed the pump and stuck my pinky in the hole as it were(to stop the water peeing out) and re-dried it off with kitchen roll to try and ascertain if it was the bottle leaking? couldn't see anyting and no drips? so I looked at the pump, it turns out that where the outer casing meets the spouty bit of the pump had become unstuck a bit, just enough to allow water to escape and was probably worse when under load. Dried it off, teased it apart to drop super glue around the join and hey presto all done. Put it all back together and job done. The inner linning by the way goes back in easier than you think when your removing it, I put the section back in the same way I removed it, outer edge of the wing in first so as to firstly get a good fit and secondly so you don't potentialy scratch or damage the wheel arch(painted section) then just push the rest into place, I thought it might be a strugle as I allways think these things never go back quite the same, thats why iam usualy very carefull when removing things.
Hope this is useful to someone else with similar a problem and if you think I missed something feel free to ask.