While driving your Taurus down the road, you may get mud water splashed on your windshield or you may have some bugs hit your windshield. Any items that block your vision through the windshield can be a very unsafe. The two washer nozzles located on the hood of your Taurus in front of your windshield wipers can be a lifesaver for cleaning your windshield quickly. Sometimes the washer nozzle can become blocked and you will need to clean it to get it to spray again.
Turn the key in your Taurus on all the way, but don't start the car. Have a friend stand by the hood of your car. Turn the windshield cleaner nob on. Your friend by the hood should hear a high pitch motor running; that sound is the windshield washer fluid pump. If there is no sound, you should take your vehicle to a mechanic to get the pump replaced. If you hear the pump but there is no washer fluid coming out of the nozzles, then follow the next few steps to clean the nozzles.
Poke a thin wire about four inches into each nozzle hole. A small wire or guitar string wire works perfect, as it is firm enough to poke through the tiny nozzle holes. There are two holes per nozzle. You will poke through the nozzle holes until you reach the base of the hose T-splitter under the hood which is about four inches below the tip of each nozzle. Poke the wire in and out of each nozzle several times to clear any debris blocking the windshield fluid stream.
Place the compressed air can plastic spray tube against each nozzle and give a several second blast of air to each nozzle hole. The compressed air will remove any excess debris that the guitar wire did not remove from the nozzle holes.
Pop the hood of your Taurus. Follow the hose from your windshield washer fluid container to the base of the hood were the nozzle hose connection is. Pull the T-splitter off the nozzle base. Blow compressed air through the nozzle. Blow compressed air through the hose and T-splitter. Do this to both nozzles, hoses and splitters. Reconnect everything as it was.
Close the hood. After placing the wire in the nozzles and blowing air in them, you may have unaligned the stream direction on the windshield coming from the nozzle holes. Stick the sewing needle into each nozzle hole and point them at an angle aligned with the windshield. Turn on the windshield washer knob and adjust each nozzle hole angle as needed until the stream lands in the center of your windshield on both halves of the windshield.
