Ok, so here's one for the books. I laughed so hard I darn near split a gut.
So, after purchasing my 03 Sonoma from a ghetto body shop with a salvage title, I decided to do a comprehensive check of it. I knew it would be a bondo-laden, quick-fix thing but it wasn't that bad: One loose fender bolt, a misaligned hood latch, and a bad carrier bearing on the driveshaft. I changed all the fluids and assumed I was done.
So I was driving around yesterday with a dusty windshield and I hit the washer button. Nothing. Came to find out that the reservoir was empty. Filled it up. As I pulled out of the parts store I hit the button again. The engine sputtered and coughed and spit all kinds of crap out the tailpipe. I did it a few times to make sure, but something wasn't right.
I spent four hours tracing wires, checking fuses... only to find out that they had mistakenly hooked the washer hose to a vacuum hose.
The bad news is that I wasted four hours tracing wires. The good news is that I steamed out a bunch of carbon from the engine.
I was gonna say - that's the auto engine cleaner feature. Fill it up with Seafoam!
roflmao! Good thing I didn't have anything in my mouth or I'd need a new monitor. That is a new one. Not suprising. Oh I know, that's where they hid the nitrous bottle.
Good thing I'd just swallowed my beer..otherwise, I'd need a new keyboard! 
I'm with Eddie..Seafoam!
I did read once a few years back about a team running One Lap of America in something like an S10 Blazer. They had an auto tranny fluid leak. They filled the washer bottle with tranny fluid, disconnected the hose, and got some aquarium tubing so that they could connect the pump to the dipstick tube. Slushbox start slipping, hit the washer stalk until it stopped. IIRC, they finished..
I thought this was gonna be a joke about running the bottle empty..my older watercooled VWs have fluid tanks that hold 4ltr or so. People say, "..geez, you must never run out of fluid!". Wrong. Since it holds a gallon, you get out of the habit of checking it. I run it dry all the time. 
friedgreencorrado wrote:
I thought this was gonna be a joke about running the bottle empty..my older watercooled VWs have fluid tanks that hold 4ltr or so. People say, "..geez, you must never run out of fluid!". Wrong. Since it holds a gallon, you get out of the habit of checking it. I run it dry all the time.
I love ones that are big enough to hold whole bottles. Run it empty, and refill. Never have partial bottles lying around.
keethrax wrote:
friedgreencorrado wrote:
I thought this was gonna be a joke about running the bottle empty..my older watercooled VWs have fluid tanks that hold 4ltr or so. People say, "..geez, you must never run out of fluid!". Wrong. Since it holds a gallon, you get out of the habit of checking it. I run it dry all the time.
I love ones that are big enough to hold whole bottles. Run it empty, and refill. Never have partial bottles lying around.
ROFL! Maybe I should keep one in the hatch.
Just goes to show that most bodymen are terrible mechanics.
lol reminds me of the merkur guy who did a DIY home brew water/alky injection... 2 windsheild pumps in series... early on he realized he needed a check valve of some sort as the engine under vac would drink his fluid of choice.
SupraWes wrote:
Alcohol injection.
I used to work for the local Toyota dealer, we got an early '80's Celica in on trade and one of the techs grabbed it off the wholesale lot for himself. While fixing it up, he discovered that the washer tank was empty so of course he filled it up. When he hit the button, washer fluid shot out from under the dash to the right of the steering column. Whaaa? Inspection showed that the washer tubing had been carefully rerouted through a firewall grommet etc. and carefully positioned where it would be easy to fill a cup held by the driver. We came to the conclusion that this was a homemade vodka dispenser easily concealed from the Five Oh.
friedgreencorrado wrote:
I thought this was gonna be a joke about running the bottle empty..my older watercooled VWs have fluid tanks that hold 4ltr or so.
I love the 5l bottom in my BMW.. it's huge.. but it holds a whole gallon and then some
Curmudgeon wrote:
SupraWes wrote:
Alcohol injection.
I used to work for the local Toyota dealer, we got an early '80's Celica in on trade and one of the techs grabbed it off the wholesale lot for himself. While fixing it up, he discovered that the washer tank was empty so of course he filled it up. When he hit the button, washer fluid shot out from under the dash to the right of the steering column. Whaaa? Inspection showed that the washer tubing had been carefully rerouted through a firewall grommet etc. and carefully positioned where it would be easy to fill a cup held by the driver. We came to the conclusion that this was a homemade vodka dispenser easily concealed from the Five Oh.
one of my friend's dads had a siilar setup for beer lmao
