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Just a quick question regarding the washers and reverse lights after being brought up by a mate of mine who recently picked up a nice AP6 Valiant..

He told me that the Valiants had come up with a reverse light switch that sat under the dash, but they had not yet come up with a way to make it work with the gearbox APPARENTLY so when you reversed you just flicked the switch yourself before you started reversing.

This got me thinking whether or not they were a factory item on an EK, even though they did have a provision for a reverse light as my car never had any reverse switch that i can see under the dash or attached to the original gearbox way back when we removed it.

I'm also wondering if the reverse light is infact needed, and if its legal to make a one piece indicator lense and delete the reverse light altogether and if needed, wire it into the indicator like almost every other old Holden / old car of the time had.

Second question,

I'm just wondering if EK's came out with windscreen washers from factory or if it was a NASCO accessory item or something that you just decided whether you wanted it or not at the dealership. I have the windscreen wiper arm surround thingies but they don't have a pipe coming through them that i've seen some of them have from time to time.

Sounds like your mates car had a home made job done to it - FB/EK's reverse light switch was mounted to the base of the column in the engine bay.
You don't have to have reverse lights fitted for rego so youre one piece idea would be OK, I had an argument with an inspector when I licenced the wifes V6 EK once and he ended up backing down after he went and checked in the office

The windscreen washers on EK's were available as a NASCO accessory (using mostly Trico components) and came in quite a few different variations with manual foot & hand pump options, as well as the top-of-the-range vacuum operated unit that was operated by pressing a button in the middle of the washer knob (the knob was modified by removing the black blanking disc and fitting a spring-loaded chrome button).

The squirters on the EK were bonnet mounted and a hole would have to be drilled to install the central squirter with two angled nozzles.

The wiper surround mounted nozzles were only on the FB, not the EK.

People also fitted Trico or other brand kits directly (like the electric Lucas Screenjet) that were not supplied by NASCO.

Here's a pic of the washer-bottle in my FB:


Harv has written an excellent guide for the FB/EK windscreen washers which you can read here http://www.scribd.com/full/52759445?acc ... xhdfp90wj5

Cheers for the replies guys, has cleared up my questions nicely