Originally Posted by
MetroMPG
3/4 nozzle jets on my first Mirage were clogged when I got it. The pin trick works OK.
2) There's a check valve (ball) in the nozzle fitting that prevents drainback.
I'm having trouble with the anti drainback valve on the driver's side right now. I think this may be a side effect of the big Central Texas freeze earlier this year. Anyway, Passenger side nozzle works, driver's side doesn't. I can't blow compressed air through it in either direction. To make it work, I have to push a toothpick up into the nozzle from below, and push the plastic check ball up into the body of the nozzle. It seems much tighter than I would expect. And the problem is that this fix now seems to lest only 1 or 2 days before I have to do it again. I think I'm going to have to replace a nozzle or 2.
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