Frozen washer fluid
12-12-2008, 11:40 AM
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Frozen washer fluid
Does anyone else have problems with their washers freezing up? It hasn't even been that cold here yet and they keep freezing up. I even went out and put in new fluid that is supposed to be good to -20*F and still they freeze. I don't think it is the fluid in the bottle freezing, I think it is the fluid in the lines sitting over night freezing.
Anyone else have the same problem?
Anyone else have the same problem?
12-12-2008, 12:03 PM
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Have you taken th ruck to a "jiffy lube" lately? The reason I ask is becasue they may have filled you up with watered down washer fluid.
The lines should not freeze anymore than the bottle.
The lines should not freeze anymore than the bottle.
12-12-2008, 12:08 PM
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No problems with mine. As said, the fluid might have been watered down. If this is the case, the lines would freeze sooner than the bottle because there is less mass.
12-12-2008, 12:41 PM
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Mine freezes every winter. I was running Windex in it, but now I'm being more careful, in the winter, to run something that says it's for cold weather. Many of the cheap washer fluids have no alcohol or whatever the antifreeze agent is.
So annoying to have it freeze on the highway on a slushy road!
So annoying to have it freeze on the highway on a slushy road!
12-12-2008, 02:46 PM
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You couldn't pay me enough to take my truck to Jiffy Lube, or any place else for that matter. I do all of my own work except for the yearly state inspection. I did buy the truck used this spring and haven't used the washers very much since then. Maybe the kid that owned it before me watered his down. I think on the next warm day I might try to run through the fluid that is in the lines in hopes of getting to the new stuff I put in the bottle. Thanks for the replies guys. I thought that maybe the route of the washer hoses or the location of the nozzles might be giving me problems. But if no one else is have the same problem it must just be the old fluid in the line.
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12-12-2008, 07:33 PM
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^^^ What Mocho uses. Used the stuff rated to -40... Funny, when it is -30 and below you really don't have to worry about slushy roads... Everything is frozen solid. But never had any issues with the good stuff, but it was more expensive...
12-13-2008, 08:27 AM
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if mine does it , it always at the nozzles . usually when there has been snow piled up over top of them ,i carry a can of that spray deicer , or use a small butain lighter works for me ..
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12-13-2008, 10:51 AM
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