Sound like you broke the lower pump. About $30 at a parts store. Don't Y off the upper pump or any time you wash the front window the rear will get sprayed (without wiping). Also, hitting the wash button for the rear would just cause the wiper to go without spraying any wash

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The pump is fine, I can spray the rear still (front hose is the one affected). The fluid all runs out,since there is now a hole where the "nipple' used to be. I was under the impression the pump and the reservoir were two separate parts, is that not true?

I see your points on the Y coupler idea. I could live with those if it's a quick easy fix. Chances are if the front needs a spray so does the back and I would have a pump not being used ever and a redundant switch.

 

Wait so a nipple broke off? The hoses attach to the pumps, there are two pumps, not the reservoir itself. So if all it broke off was one of the nipples you just need to replace one of the pumps. As stated above they run about $30.

 

I'll look again to make sure, it's a little mangled under there and hard to see, I am going off of what I feel when I reach up. Pulling the bumper cover and rotating my tires tomorrow so I'll look. Tomorrow's suppose to be 50 degrees in CO sounds like a driveway day to me, nice and warm.

 

http://www.courtesyparts.com/27485-pump-assy-washer-xterra-wd22-2000-2004-p-580187.html

There's a picture of the pump. You can see the plug in the upper left corner, the rubber gromet where it mounts into the tank in the lower left, and the nipple where the hose attaches (kind of hard to see if you don't look closely since it's all white) in about the middle right of the picture.

They are the same model # (27485) except the rear has the # 27485+A (although when my rear quit working, I swapped the front pump with the rear harness to test and it plugged in fine. The #27485 lists at $25, the 27485+A at $35. If I recall correctly the pumps look the same (or dang close), I don't know if the 27485+A is rated for a touch higher PSI to make the long run or what.. or if they're interchangable.

Advance Auto only lists the ACI 177128 part # as a FRONT pump for a 01 Xterra ($19.99).. but that's about all I can tell you (I can't pull up rockauto.com right now for some reason)

 

It's $16 on Rock Auto, so I'll hit up O'Reilly in the morning. Thanks! I was just at all those sites, and you are right, I can see right where the nipple broke off, when I first looked at the schematic at courtesy parts (I love their breakdown with the part numbers) I didn't realize the nipple was on the pump itself and thought it was a part of the reservoir.

Hooray for me, because as of tomorrow, I'll be back in business (this time of year is a nightmare with fluid in CO), I'm thinking I'm going to write it up for anyone who has to do the same in the future.

I appreciate the research, reps for you for sure.