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I'm installing the wiper box on the TR3. Are there any rubber pieces that go between the chrome ferrules and the scuttle panel?? It seems like there should be something there, but when I took the assemblies off years ago, I had all of the pieces that came off screwed together, and there wasn't anything like that there. I've got the rubber tube cut on a bias, the chrome ferrule (also at an angle), and a chrome nut. Am I missing anything??

Edit: One other thing. There are 5/16" holes just slightly forward and towards the center of each wheel box hole. I'm assuming they are for the screen washers. (I've got a different body on this car). Did all of the post 60,000 bodies have these holes and windscreen washers??
 
There is a rubber gasket that goes between the chrome bezel and the scuttle. Moss shows it as P/N 282-820, and I think the TRF P/N is SLP102.

Don't know about the post-60K cars, but many of the pre-60K cars had the holes even when they were not supplied with the optional windscreen washer. I've seen several cars with the holes & nozzles on the scuttle, but without the tell-tale hole in the dash where the pump went.
 
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Don't know about the post-60K cars, but many of the pre-60K cars had the holes even when they were not supplied with the optional windscreen washer. I've seen several cars with the holes & nozzles on the scuttle, but without the tell-tale hole in the dash where the pump went.
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OK, if there are the holes in the scuttle, and NO washers, what occupied the holes in place of the nozzles??

Oh, and thank you for the part numbers for the rubber gaskets.
 
Art, I just looked at mine, which is a post 60K car. There is an oblong hole for the wiper box and a hole to the right for the washer nozzle, or to the left depending on which side you sre looking at. I don't know if they all had them. Nothing in the judgeing manual mentions the washer system. Since I have the holes and most of the parts I am going to include it when I reassemble that part of the car.

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TR3driver said:
Don't know about the post-60K cars, but many of the pre-60K cars had the holes even when they were not supplied with the optional windscreen washer. I've seen several cars with the holes & nozzles on the scuttle, but without the tell-tale hole in the dash where the pump went.
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Ours had unoccupied holes in the scuttle but no dash hole and no nozzles or bottle. I did find a couple of original brass nipples that screw on the back of the nozzles.

Q. Where did the pump originally mount? ISTR just to the left of the bottom corner of the gloveox door?
 
The cars left the factory in Coventry with the holes for the nozzles. They also had the rubber washers and the chromed washer nozzles installed too, even if the washer system was not installed. I bought my TR3A brand new from one of the four S-T dealers in 1958 herte in Montreal and he drilled a hole in the dash (where it pleased him) and he installed the push plunger - also the bottle because I ordered the optional windscreen washer when I bought the car new. It was a dealer installed option, but the nozzles had already been installed at the factory.
 

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I don't think they all left with the holes ... TS13571L doesn't have them and I see no signs of them being repaired. Maybe there was a change point or something, I don't know.

As noted, the pumps were usually dealer-installed, and they put the holes more or less where they felt like. But the one on TS39781LO is a mirror image of what's shown in the handbook.
 
Oops, forgot to add, Don is right about the factory putting nozzles in the holes (when they drilled the holes). But I managed to lose the nozzles for TS39781LO when it was being painted, so for a few years I ran around with 1/4" bolts & nylon washers in the holes /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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