OK, so I bring in a 99 Isuzu Rodeo to work on today. One of the complaints was that it needed a new winshield washer jug, as when he pours in the fluid it runs right out the bottom. He also tells us that it was totaled last winter, he bought it back from the insurance company, and had the vocational class at the high school he worked at fix it. We can see a large slab of body filler over about 1/3 of the hood. Sand scratches every where, and that the painter must not have been able to bend at the knees or waist! The person that applied the clear coat evidently could bend at the knees and / or waist!
So I knock off some of the list of repairs we found it needed for a sticker. I pull down the inner fender. (1) I notice where they straitened the core support they didn't bother to re weld the broken spot welds.
(2) I notice that one of the two pumps on the washer fluid jug was not connected. Sure enough, pour washer fluid in, it runs out the pump. No hose to be found anywhere? I pop the hood, start at the hood, and trace the hose down. It had been made one with the wire harness using about half a roll of electrical tape. It runs along the inner fender, has been extended with a vacuum tee, continues to run right up, and into the coolant over flow bottle!! DOH ! !
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When I reroute it to where it belongs right where it was extended reaches the washer fluid bottle perfectly.
So I guess if a hose doesn't reach, then you make it reach what its not supposed to go too!
Don't bother to test it either!
Not to mention where is the teacher? Why isn't he double checking this stuff?
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