type44T..ever had your washer bottle melt?

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

Must be your imagination, Chris :~) If the bottle was full of washer fluid, 
it would tend to boil off whatever fluid was in the bottle.  OR, you had a 
heat source in your engine compartment that swept blistering hot gases over 
the bottle long enough to get parts of the plastic very hot. Was the bottle 
empty? Is the whole bottle distorted, or is the damage localized? Could 
there have been such a heat source?  Is there other evidence of scorched or 
distorted plastic ? Are all those hoses and connectors and fittings in that 
area still undamaged?

A most likely explanation would be an exhaust manifold/turbo stream leak. 
Such a leak could release 1,200 degree gasses directly from the cherry red 
manifold or turbo, and those gasses could have been swept across the washer 
bottle by ram air during a trip/rally/race.

The washer bottle is on the correct side to receive such gasses. The engine 
itself is a very efficient furnace what burns gallons of high test fuel 
every hour. That's my best guess as a source of the heat. Smoking gun 
argument, you might say. Very interesting mystery. Tell us when you verify 
the answer. And check for a split in the down pipe from the turbo as well 
as a EM leak. And try to avoid dying from whatever is affecting that washer 
bottle.

Doyt Echelberger
Currently without that problem in an 87 5ktq

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At 01:27 AM 12/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>the windshield washer bottle on my '86 5kT looks like its melting..distorted
>from heat..  anyone ever had this happen before?
>chris