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Old 04-04-2016, 10:42 PM
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Default What's up with the glass bottle in the engine bay?

There's a triangular glass bottle mounted under the hood, driver's side fender. research suggests it's a washer bottle "Kleer view"? But this car has another reservoir in the passenger side front, added I suspect.

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Old 04-04-2016, 10:44 PM
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It hold fluid for the washer system.Tom

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Old 04-05-2016, 09:25 AM
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It was a concentrate washer fluid. You put a bit in the washer bottle & filled it the rest of the way up with water.

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Old 04-05-2016, 10:11 PM
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It's in-op now, no line to it, just a solid metal cap. There is a 'normal" reservoir up in the passenger front corner. I assume that is a retro fit.

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Old 04-05-2016, 10:38 PM
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As said,that bottle just holds Xtra fluid for the system.Tom

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Back then, efficiency was just common sense. Why pay more to package,ship and store 95% water all over the country.. Green solution / carbon footprint anyone? Convenience won the day, and now we pay as much for a gallon of 'fluid' as a gallon of gas.

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It's in-op now, no line to it, just a solid metal cap. There is a 'normal" reservoir up in the passenger front corner. I assume that is a retro fit.
Not a retro fit!

It was a two-part system... the reservoir in the front corner with the hose/line and the glass bottle on the fender. You fill the reservoir with water and then if needed, depending on the amount of protection from freezing you required, you measured out the concentrate and dumped it into the reservoir.

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Old 04-06-2016, 11:39 AM
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Got it, it's "manually" inputed from the bottle into the reservoir. What color was it? I think I'll put something in there. Bourbon?

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It was about this color......

http://image.rakuten.co.jp/sakemitsu...pg?_ex=128x128

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Old 04-06-2016, 01:28 PM
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Just depends,I mean what you like to drink
Mine had the bottle also.I threw it away,for restorers they probably cringe.Young and naive, dumb.

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