{"id":19678,"date":"2013-04-30T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=19678"},"modified":"2016-09-20T20:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T17:06:28","slug":"wiper-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wiper-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiper Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I dropped in at O&#8217;Reilly auto parts to pick up some <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=19501\">new wiper blades for the truck<\/a>. There was an $11.03 balance on my <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18469\">gift card<\/a>, so the wipers only cost me $0.73 out of pocket!<\/p>\n<p>L put them on Moya this afternoon and it was way easier than <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11390\">changing the wiper blades on the Accent<\/a>. So much so I&#8217;m embarrassed not to have done it myself.<\/p>\n<p>We then had a look at Miranda and why the wiper fluid was pumping but not reaching the windshield. L pulled on something and it came loose, so he (correctly) guessed that it needed to be reconnected to a T. He gave me instructions\/suggestions on how to do that and then we went in for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>I came back out, got my <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1423\">EZ-Foldz<\/a> along with a star screw driver and a pair of needle nose pliers. After I removed several screws and rummaged around blindly with the pliers, I finally found the T (actually V) connection and got the hoses hooked up again.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-19678 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/imgp6681\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP6681-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19679\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19679'>\n\t\t\t\tThis is the thing L pulled on that came loose. The wiper fluid was coming out of it.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/imgp6682\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP6682-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19680\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19680'>\n\t\t\t\tAnother angle.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/imgp6683\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP6683-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19681\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19681'>\n\t\t\t\tI had to pry up this black thing. The job would have been easier had I removed the wipers and fully removed the black thing&#8230; but then I would have had to remove the wipers and black thing.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/imgp6684\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMGP6684-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-19682\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-19682'>\n\t\t\t\tHere&#8217;s the V. I hooked it up this way to test the connection, then I did it properly by reinserting the hose from the pump into the dash and fishing it up using the pliers.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I dropped in at O&#8217;Reilly auto parts to pick up some new wiper blades for the truck. There was an $11.03 balance on my gift card, so the wipers only cost me $0.73 out of pocket! L put them on Moya this afternoon and it was way easier than changing the wiper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,635,5,3,16,1433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kansas","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-wichita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}