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Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:50 pm

I am looking for the glass washer fluid bottle and bracket that is shown in the October issue of UltraVW on the Fendered 57 thats on the cover. Would love to install one of those onto my 57...Anybody knows where, who or how much...???

Thu Oct 14, 2004 1:13 pm

Like these?

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=113200

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=111773

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=57615

Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:02 pm

Thats the ones...Thank you for all the insight...Now the question would be, "Can I retro the bottle to fit and work with the 12V system in my 67...???"

Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:35 pm

6, 12, 110-- doesn't matter. the switch is a little hand pump. no electricity required.

Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:46 pm

I understand that...But I don't want the handpump...I just want to use the bottle as the container for my fluid and use the existing 12V pump and system that I have in my 67...

Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:38 pm

But your 67 shouldn't have a 12V pump. Unless I'm very much mistaken they came with the same air pressure system the earlier beetles had. No pump, they just ran off the spare tire pressure.

If you have a pump I really don't know what to tell you. Don't see why your pump would care what tank it drew the fluid from, but who knows . . .

Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:29 am

no electriv 12v pump...just the pumping motion of your index finger into the wiper switch on your dash if you are stock. pump pump pump.... unless a previous owner chaged it on you. The things pervious owners do that seem like cool at the time....... hmmmm. :shock:

Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:01 am

On my 65 the washer switch is not strictly a pump. It is a switch that opens the hose and lets fluid under pressure into the nozzle. The washer fluid tank on the 65 does not run off the spare tire, but is pressurized separately. I use a bicycle pump to pressurize the tank.

Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:24 pm

I once used the air hose ( hooked to a real air compressor, not the quarter jobs) at the gas station to fill up my washer tank in my 67. I was standing directly over it when the hose blew off shooting a stream of washer fluid at what felt like 100 psi. directly into my eyeball. :shock:
I thought I was blinded for life!