josephwillidog
12-07-2003, 03:49 PM
Hoping someone could help me with this...
First off, I'm in Utica NY, so theres hella snow up here. It's pretty much a necessity to have your washer fluid operational to keep the snow and salt off...ok. A few days ago, the fluid stopped pumping, so I stopped by Autozone (2fast 2furious BWAH HA HA) and got some more, thinking I was just out.
This is where it gets interesting:
After popping the hood, I immediately notice my dipstick for my engine oil is like hanging out of the engine and just hanging on by an inch or two... :eek: ok not good, I guess wallyworld didnt put it back in securely, and so there was some oil in the engine bay and on the upper part of the hood. :mad::mad: I thought that the dipstick knocked the little splitter thing for the washer fluid off, so I reattached it and tried to use the fluid, it worked for a second or two, but stopped. I popped the hood and reattached it and repeated the whole process numerous times... Basically, I think some oil got on the splitter and soaked through the hoses, making them too "lubed up" or something to hold onto the splitter when there is pressure on it for more than a second or two.
Any thoughts or suggestions on this? Maybe clean the hoses and splitters with rubbing alcohol or Goo Gone?
One thing I DID learn from this is to always double check the dipstick after getting it changed... :o
Thanks for the help!
First off, I'm in Utica NY, so theres hella snow up here. It's pretty much a necessity to have your washer fluid operational to keep the snow and salt off...ok. A few days ago, the fluid stopped pumping, so I stopped by Autozone (2fast 2furious BWAH HA HA) and got some more, thinking I was just out.
This is where it gets interesting:
After popping the hood, I immediately notice my dipstick for my engine oil is like hanging out of the engine and just hanging on by an inch or two... :eek: ok not good, I guess wallyworld didnt put it back in securely, and so there was some oil in the engine bay and on the upper part of the hood. :mad::mad: I thought that the dipstick knocked the little splitter thing for the washer fluid off, so I reattached it and tried to use the fluid, it worked for a second or two, but stopped. I popped the hood and reattached it and repeated the whole process numerous times... Basically, I think some oil got on the splitter and soaked through the hoses, making them too "lubed up" or something to hold onto the splitter when there is pressure on it for more than a second or two.
Any thoughts or suggestions on this? Maybe clean the hoses and splitters with rubbing alcohol or Goo Gone?
One thing I DID learn from this is to always double check the dipstick after getting it changed... :o
Thanks for the help!