What is a cowl cover?
A cowl is the panel that covers the gap between your car’s hood and windshield. It supports both the windshield and the dashboard while also protecting the area between the windshield and the hood. From time to time, most cowls become clogged especially if you leave your car outside in the fall.
What’s the best way to remove a windshield cowl?
Next is to start removing the plastic retainers that hold the cowl in place. There is a slit in the retainer to help with ease of removal. Then once your in the slit, just simply pry up and insert the tool underneath the head of the retainer and pry up again to completely remove it.
How to remove plastic Assembly from windshield washer?
The windshield washer hose has become disconnected from the spray nozzle. I need to remove the large plastic assembly at the bottom of the windshield to get to the hose routing. I’m talking about the plastic tray like thing in the first picture.
How do you remove a plastic wiper cap?
Be sure that the wipers are parked before you do the following first steps. The end of each wiper arm has a plastic cap that simply pops off with a flat screw driver. Then use a 14 mm wrench to undo the nut that holds the wiper arm on. Wiggle the wiper arms back and forth until they pop off their shaft.
How do you remove cowl from Subaru Outback?
The cowl simply rotates the lower edge (the edge facing the grill) and lifts off. NOTE: there are claws on the top edge of the cowl that go under the windshield glass when you reassemble the cowl to the car. Good Luck! These are the steps from the FSM with a little editing, and without the pictures. Thanks so much for such detailed instructions.
The windshield washer hose has become disconnected from the spray nozzle. I need to remove the large plastic assembly at the bottom of the windshield to get to the hose routing. I’m talking about the plastic tray like thing in the first picture.
Be sure that the wipers are parked before you do the following first steps. The end of each wiper arm has a plastic cap that simply pops off with a flat screw driver. Then use a 14 mm wrench to undo the nut that holds the wiper arm on. Wiggle the wiper arms back and forth until they pop off their shaft.
The cowl simply rotates the lower edge (the edge facing the grill) and lifts off. NOTE: there are claws on the top edge of the cowl that go under the windshield glass when you reassemble the cowl to the car. Good Luck! These are the steps from the FSM with a little editing, and without the pictures. Thanks so much for such detailed instructions.