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If you don't want those ugly snake spitters (washer nozzles) on your hood or you never reinstalled them after getting a hood here is what you have been waiting for! I recently got the AIT hood and found that the washer nozzles from the Grand Prix fit on the wiper arms and the hoses can be hidden away very well with little effort.
You need 2 GM Part #22094728 which are about $8 each. Remove a total of two clips from the cowl, one on each side. Close the hood and have someone put back on the cowl, toward the front of the car, while you drill a 1/4" hole in front of each of the wiper spindles angled toward the front of the car as much as possible. Then thread the "new" hoses down the underside of the wipers, through the middle of the spring and then through the hole you drilled. Don't clip the nozzle onto the wiper arm yet. Open the hood and take the "old" washer fluid hose off of what ever it's attached to until you have the old hose that starts with the first and second rubber connectors and runs all the way to the engine compartment without connecting to anything. When I got mine back from the body shop they just left it dangling free in the engine compartment so I'm not exactly sure what to tell you for that part. Just use your common sense. If you don't have any then never mind. Anyways moving on, where was I oh yeah, pull the old hose out of the second "T shape" connector and hold it against the cowl in front of where you drilled the hole on the driver side of the car. Estimate how much you need to reach that hole once the old hose is fed under the cowl, through the opening that it was originally, and cut it there. Super glue the end of that hose into the T connector. Now pull the new hoses down as far as you can so that you have some slack to work with. Next glue each one of the new hoses into the two rubber connectors and tuck that whole thing under the cowl. Then pull the washer nozzles up to the thin metal part of the wipers and clip them on the under side. Put the two clips back in the cowl close the hood and test your new washer system.
**Pics**
This is the route that the hoses should take.
Here you can see where the hose comes through the cowl for each wiper.
Here you can see how the hose runs up the arm and where the nozzle fits in.
On the driver side wiper I had to add this small T connector to spray some fluid on a part of the windshield that didn't get any. I heated up the spraying end of it and pinched it with pliers to make it fan out the fluid and to provide some pressure.
You need 2 GM Part #22094728 which are about $8 each. Remove a total of two clips from the cowl, one on each side. Close the hood and have someone put back on the cowl, toward the front of the car, while you drill a 1/4" hole in front of each of the wiper spindles angled toward the front of the car as much as possible. Then thread the "new" hoses down the underside of the wipers, through the middle of the spring and then through the hole you drilled. Don't clip the nozzle onto the wiper arm yet. Open the hood and take the "old" washer fluid hose off of what ever it's attached to until you have the old hose that starts with the first and second rubber connectors and runs all the way to the engine compartment without connecting to anything. When I got mine back from the body shop they just left it dangling free in the engine compartment so I'm not exactly sure what to tell you for that part. Just use your common sense. If you don't have any then never mind. Anyways moving on, where was I oh yeah, pull the old hose out of the second "T shape" connector and hold it against the cowl in front of where you drilled the hole on the driver side of the car. Estimate how much you need to reach that hole once the old hose is fed under the cowl, through the opening that it was originally, and cut it there. Super glue the end of that hose into the T connector. Now pull the new hoses down as far as you can so that you have some slack to work with. Next glue each one of the new hoses into the two rubber connectors and tuck that whole thing under the cowl. Then pull the washer nozzles up to the thin metal part of the wipers and clip them on the under side. Put the two clips back in the cowl close the hood and test your new washer system.
**Pics**
This is the route that the hoses should take.
Here you can see where the hose comes through the cowl for each wiper.
Here you can see how the hose runs up the arm and where the nozzle fits in.
On the driver side wiper I had to add this small T connector to spray some fluid on a part of the windshield that didn't get any. I heated up the spraying end of it and pinched it with pliers to make it fan out the fluid and to provide some pressure.
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