Hot washer fluid?

[LesGrandsPieds]

I found the tube that carries the washer fluid from the tank to the sprayer heads. I want to find some way to reroute it so it will heat up whenever I spray, either that or run it next to something in the engine that gets really hot. There has to be some clever way to heat up the washer fluid before it comes out. Even if it depended on the fact that the engine were hot I would love to have it.

[newscarver]

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[vamc]

Hear me out on this one, could be a way to fix that prob, this is a long shot though. Get a seat warmer and wrap it around the resavour(sp). maybe that.

[rodtice]

get a length of hose to extend your washer hose and wrap it around a heater hose or the upper radiator hose many times. There used to be a kit sold that did that very same thing.

[baron1701]

This Is An Idea That Is Worth Looking Into. I Remember When I Was Younger And Had My First Few Cars, I Was Always Trying To Solve A Problem With Some 'wierd' Design Of My Own. If Anyone Could Succesfully Do This It Would Be 'cool'

The Problem Is, Even With An Electric Element It Would Take A Bit Of Time To Heat That Big Resevoir. Maybe If You Used Something In Combination With An Oil Based Engine Heater. Kinda Tied Them Together Into One Plug That You Could Power From A Garage Overnight. I Know That In Ma. The Weather Is Almost Bad Enough To Warant These Measures. Later

[vamc]

About that wraping a hose around a heater hose, i think it may not work well because when the fluid is moving around there, its moving to fast to warm up. my 2 cents, but in fact, it is still a great idea.

[rodtice]

The heated water that was sitting in the line around the radiator hose is the water your using, it won't heat fast enough on the flow I agree, but the more hose wrapped around the radiator hose the more volume of heated water you already have.

Another option is on some of our radiators you may have an unused oilcooler you could run the washer fluid through that and you would have instantly heated water on the fly.

OR
my dad built a heat exchanger to warm oil used in a hydraulic system on a pickup. It was a heater pipe through the oil resivoir. you could build a heat exchanger like that.

[newscarver]

brainstorm...splice in a copper tubing section about the size of brake line that would wrap around your exhaust pipe...probably 10 coils around the exhaust pipe would be enough and the you could wrap it so it would not lose the heat

[baron1701]

Before This Thread Is Done There Will Be A 300lb Cast Iron Boiler Under Someones Hood.

[Indy8]

Originally Posted by newscarver

brainstorm...splice in a copper tubing section about the size of brake line that would wrap around your exhaust pipe...probably 10 coils around the exhaust pipe would be enough and the you could wrap it so it would not lose the heat

And when it starts to boil inside the tube???

[vamc]

Originally Posted by baron1701

Before This Thread Is Done There Will Be A 300lb Cast Iron Boiler Under Someones Hood.

Now that i have to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol. Now that would make my day!

[vamc]

For some odd reason, i can see a car fire, or is it just me?