stuck wipers.
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Fleet Mechanic
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From: central ohio
stuck wipers.
well i had stuck wipers the other day, i leave them 1/2 way swept up the windsheild and under the drivers side i have a 2'x2' rubber-backed carpet mat. then when i leave early in the morning, i have a big clear square to see out from, also works good when there is freezing rain. wen to go to work the other morning and the wipers stayed where i parked them, tried helping them out by grabbing them by hand but they wouldnt budge. i could see the volt guage dip every so often, so i knew they were trying to work.the truck hadnt been driven for a few days, we had a real fine snow, then freezing rain, then more snow. the cowl area where the wiper linkage is was filled up with slush, it melted a little and refroze. i heated up some winshield washer fluid and poured into the cowl. thawed it out and works fine now.
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Fleet Mechanic
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i dumped the gallon of washer fluid into a glass bowl from the wife's mixer, about 10 min in the microwave, then poured it back into the jug. wasnt real hot, but did the job.
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i would be living in my truck if the wife ever caught me doing that lol
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Fleet Mechanic
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she didnt have a problem with it- it washes out. now if i had used the same mixing bowl as a drain pan for the differential, that would be another matter. seems like the smell of 80w-90 gear oil, never quite goes away.....
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RACSAN, you could have used plain water instead of the windshield washer fluid. You were melting water with a hot liquid. The fluid would have gotten diluted as it flushed the ice, and re-frozen at whatever temperature the dilute mix froze at. Water would have been just as good.
If you have a garden hose and spigot that doesn't freeze, you can use it to de-frost your windshield and other windows with no real problems. If the hose were empty, and stored inside, you would be essentially running house-temperature [for a while] water and then the 50-60ish water you get from the utility line. Either will melt ice.
Now, if you were in Antarctica, and the temp was -15 or so.... another story.
I have used a plastic pitcher of water many times to melt frost on the windows. May take 2 trips inside, but it works, and gets the glass above 32F if you're lucky.
tom
If you have a garden hose and spigot that doesn't freeze, you can use it to de-frost your windshield and other windows with no real problems. If the hose were empty, and stored inside, you would be essentially running house-temperature [for a while] water and then the 50-60ish water you get from the utility line. Either will melt ice.
Now, if you were in Antarctica, and the temp was -15 or so.... another story.
I have used a plastic pitcher of water many times to melt frost on the windows. May take 2 trips inside, but it works, and gets the glass above 32F if you're lucky.
tom
