anniesball72
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Is there a factory heated windshield washer? Mine freeze up at high elevations in the winder.
Heated windshield washers
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Hopeless Diamond
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Take the output of the pump and route it though a hose wrapped around the upper radiator hose a few turns before the nozzles. And use better washer fluid, don't let oil changes places fill it, they use watered down crap
19963.4lsr5
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I wished I could invent the very same thing. My Cummins doesn't make reliable heat in the winter when it's needed to keep a window free of ice and snow. And it's annoying having to stop and snap each wiper to get the ice buildup off the blades. Heated fluid may help......but
Edit. I use the orange Rainex. It's not adequate especially during a typical North Easter.
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Edit. I use the orange Rainex. It's not adequate especially during a typical North Easter.
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octanejunkie
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As long as there is enough alcohol in the fluid the line shouldn't freeze.
BTW, in the winter you can add a $1 bottle of 70% isopropyl alcohol per gallon of windshield wiper fluid to prevent freezing.
BTW, in the winter you can add a $1 bottle of 70% isopropyl alcohol per gallon of windshield wiper fluid to prevent freezing.
LittleCaesar
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The IPA can destroy the check balls in the system over time. Don't ask me how I know.....
octanejunkie
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One pint per gallon isn't much, but HOW do you know? Lol
LittleCaesar
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I used a little more than a pint and the check balls failed. I had to replace them. Wasn't fun.
psraff
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Funny this came up just now. My alternate and I were just talking about this same kind of issue the other day. Ice build up on the wipers and such.
Granted our b!itch was a little different. You have your wipers on and the water \ snow gets pushed down to the bottom of the windshield below where the defroster can reach. It builds up. Wipers still reach it and then builds onto the wipers...
I've really thought of popping the wiper arms off the truck here on the Slope and rotate them just one or two teeth marks so they stay higher on the windshield where the defroster could help keep the ice melted off when they aren't on (or on intermittent) .
Granted our b!itch was a little different. You have your wipers on and the water \ snow gets pushed down to the bottom of the windshield below where the defroster can reach. It builds up. Wipers still reach it and then builds onto the wipers...
I've really thought of popping the wiper arms off the truck here on the Slope and rotate them just one or two teeth marks so they stay higher on the windshield where the defroster could help keep the ice melted off when they aren't on (or on intermittent) .
