Meanwhile, on the other Little Car project...

[Gwendolyn Ann Smith <gwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A mini update, if you will...

I finally have a radiator hose in shipping, and it should be arriving by 
Friday, thanks to Jeff Kennedy.  I've also got a line on a set of date 
coded tower clamps for the radiator hoses.  So finally the radiator 
search is on the positive side.

The bumpers from Joe might get picked up today, or if not, then Friday.  
I sense an upcoming weekend project.

But while I wait on the arrival of hoses and bumpers, I'm back to the 
eternal conundrum that is the windshield washer.

I was recently lucky enough to score, off eBay, a partial NOS windshield 
washer system.  No foot pedal (which means no foot pedal pad, the only 
part I seem to be missing), and no hoses (I've an abundance of these), 
but a new washer bag (I've got a spare as well), a new check valve, new 
hardware, a completely non-corroded sprayer and (ta da!) an instruction 
sheet.

One catch, though.  The instructions seem to be for, or somewhere between 
1965 and 1967, as it references the Marlin.  It also tells me how to 
remove the plastic hole cover to put the hose through the firewall.  Only 
trouble?  There is no plastic hole cover, nor any hole.  This must be an 
enhancement from between model years.

Now in earlier information, gleaned from a parts book, it shows what I 
would assume was a curved metal connector to go through the firewall, but 
(a) I don't have that connector, and (b) it is unclear where this is 
going through in that image.

So now I get to ask more questions.  Oh, goody!

1. do I need to carve another hole into the firewall, or can this be 
routed through the big, handy opening that all the wires go through?  
Would this be a problem?

2. No-one would happen to have one of those metal connectors sitting 
around, no?

Cheers,
Gwen Smith

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