Best source for 1/4" cheap-o plastic tees on windshield washer hoses?

[fixizin]

We've got this helpful thread for where to get the tubing itself...

quick fix for broken windshield washer lines

found the perfect line to replace it at home depot http://www.homedepot.com/p/DIG-Corp-1-4-in-x-100-ft-Poly-Tubing-B38100P/204184721 just thought i would pass this on

www.therangerstation.com

... but what about the tees and other fittings? Thanks in advance.

 

[fixizin]

D'OH!... why not get the tees at the same place!...?

DIG 1/4 in. Barb Tees (10-Pack) H82A - The Home Depot

Acquire the 1/4 in. Tees (5-Pack) H82A, tees are useful tools for branching irrigation tubing into multiple lines at The Home Depot

www.homedepot.com

Will irrigation tubing and fittings survive underhood temps?... I dunno, but it's SO MUCH cheaper than auto parts prices, and such a non-critical item, might as well try, eh wot??

 

[Curious Hound]

Might as well try. Don't they have that stuff at Advance, O'Reilly, Autozone, etc.? Or, every time you go to the junk yard, grab a handfull.

 

[ZMan]

Help aisle at any parts store will have an assortment of vacuum line fittings that will do the job

 

[black_demon69]

Tubing is still soft since 2014 when I posted that . As far as tees I was able too use the original ones.

 

[fixizin]

Might as well try. Don't they have that stuff at Advance, O'Reilly, Autozone, etc.? Or, every time you go to the junk yard, grab a handfull.

CRAZY eh-spensive at auto parts store, but Home Depot will deliver 10 of them, to my door, (in just 2 DAYS!) for $2.43, incl. tax!!
(I'll sell the rest to youse guys, for "only" $3.49/piece!... )

My original tees seem to be brittle, and easily broken... after only 23 years... tubing not looking young and supple either.

Gots ta have mah squirters squirtin'!!

 

[fixizin]

This whole mis-adventure sideshow started because I had "growth" in my reservoir. Here in So-Fla, we don't need the GOOD blue-stuff with antifreeze properties, just the really cheap-ass blue stuff, supposedly with mild detergent in it... 23 years, never seen "growth" before... probably because prior to COVID was driving enough to be topping it up a LOT more often, but now it sits long enough to evaporate the alcohol or whatever inhibits "growth". Ran a little bleach through it, but don't want to be spraying bleach on my truck, so will probably pop a few drops of iodine in there going forward.

 

[superj]

ours does that too, gets crystalline looking stuff growing in reservoir

 

[fixizin]

"crystalline"... ugh, that sounds clog-worthy. Mine was definitely biological, spider-webby, so dark green it's black, didn't want to risk clogging the nozzles, so disconnected tubing at the first tee (which broke), tipped an ounce of bleach in there (blue level was LOW), in 5 minutes the blue and the growth are clear, ran the pump until dry (you can hear it), just draining down the firewall... ran an extra quart+ of just tap water through cuz the 23-year-old pump, tubing, etc. probably not helped by bleach.

Blue stuff doesn't seem to grow anything in air-conditioned closet, so will try my iodine trick...