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My '64 Dart came to me without a hint of a windshield washer. No hoses, no bag, nada.
Optional equipment until '66 when it became standard.
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In the FSM it mentions an electric washer (if the car is equipped with it), but no mention of what all is involved.
The '64 style involved a vinyl-and-canvas bag-style reservoir mounted on a stamped-steel bracket bolted to the left inner fender near the firewall, printed up with "MoPar Jiffy-Jet" with a plain aluminum cap. There are two brass nozzles with steel mounting tabs, an F-shaped splitter at the driver's side of the cowl ledge, and (new for '64!) an electric washer pump with an aluminum body, mounted by three screws below the reservoir bag. The pump grounds thru its mounting and is activated by a black plastic pushbutton protruding from the centre of the windshield wiper switch knob. The switch shaft is hollow and a thin pushrod runs from the black plastic pushbutton to a momentary-contact switch mounted to the back of the main wiper switch. There are
four different '64 wiper switches: Single speed and variable-speed, with and without washer. The "without washer" knob is the same as the '63 knob: no central pushbutton nor place to put it. Starting in '65, one simply pushed the wiper knob itself (which is to say, it's probably easier if you're retrofitting to find a '65-'66 switch and use your existing knob).
Starting in '65, the bag-style reservoir was replaced by the now-familiar transluscent white hard plastic reservoir, also mounted on the driver's side inner fender. The metal pump was retained through '66, replaced in '67 by a pump attached directly to the (newly enlarged) reservoir. The metal pump is available as a repro; see for example
here.
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I am pretty sure my car had an other than electric washer setup originally.
Dealer-installed with rubber kick bulb mounted on the inside of the firewall, above the headlight beam selector kickswitch.
What's the goal? To have washers that work, to have an original system...?
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