{"id":2537,"date":"2017-03-20T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2017-03-20T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T10:00:56","slug":"quick-dirty-fix-washer-fluid-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/quick-dirty-fix-washer-fluid-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick &amp; Dirty Fix: Washer Fluid Pump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently refilled my windshield washer fluid, and found that I had a problem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2544\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017_03_20_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_03_20_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The outlet of the washer fluid pump had broken off, and it let all the washer fluid leak out, and left me with no way to clean my windshield. I didn&#8217;t have time to track down a replacement, so I decided I&#8217;d try hacking it back together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2545\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017_03_20_02.jpg\" alt=\"2017_03_20_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First I superglued the hose and connection back onto the pump, then covered it all in Toyota form-in-place gasket, and then wrapped it all in electrical tape. So far it seems to be holding and not leaking, so I probably can wait a bit before needing to buy a new pump.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently refilled my windshield washer fluid, and found that I had a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[31,69],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","category-my-car","tag-diy","tag-wipers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}