What's this bag?

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:08 am

what the heck is the bag in this pic. i haven't gone out to the car to actually follow the tubes anywhere. is it a coolant overflow bag, or washer reservoir? why a "bag"? did they all come this way? is there a tank replacement I can get?

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:45 am

windshield washer reservoir

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:26 pm

So Cal Mark wrote:windshield washer reservoir

so is there a tank that people generally replace this with? a bag is just kinda ugly looking IMO.

mdrburchette · Post by **mdrburchette** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:39 pm

I don't recall seeing anything but a bag for the Spider. They take very little space and if the bag's replaced and the engine compartment cleaned up it would look fine.

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:02 pm

mdrburchette wrote:I don't recall seeing anything but a bag for the Spider. They take very little space and if the bag's replaced and the engine compartment cleaned up it would look fine.

I guess that one nice thing about it is that the bag shrinks depending on how much fluid is in it. It's nice to not worry about fluids sloshing around that might impact performance. although I highly doubt that little bit of fluid would cause any Autocrossing issues anyway.

fiater · Post by **fiater** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:00 pm

The two things that I don't like about the bag are; they're hard to fill without a funnel and fluid leakes out the top, if you lean on them while working on the car. Other than that, how many people can say that they have a washer fluid bag on their car?

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:04 pm

and it can be used on your person when you become old, feeble and incontinent!

mdrburchette · Post by **mdrburchette** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:16 pm

You're right Mark. You can also use it on those long drives....you guys have all the benefits.

Mad-Machine · Post by **Mad-Machine** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:24 am

I believe the very last spiders had a tank. Some of the early 80s cars had one that was on the driver's side of the engine compartment and the very last spiders had a tank that was built into the windsheild wiper cowl.

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:22 pm

Mad-Machine wrote:I believe the very last spiders had a tank. Some of the early 80s cars had one that was on the driver's side of the engine compartment and the very last spiders had a tank that was built into the windsheild wiper cowl.

well, I've decided to replace it with a tank, cause the bag has a tear down by the pump and is just too worn to try to patch. I haven't really seen that part in any catalogs, but replacement tanks are a dollar a dozen, and if I have issues with getting the stock pump to work with it then I won't sweat just getting a new pump that matches my tank. Not like fiats only run with a specific washer pump! In my vast amounts of spare time I'll research this tank located in the cowl, cause it at least sounds like it'd be cool to look into....

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:21 pm

the 84 and 85s had a tank mounted under the left front corner of the cowl

Mad-Machine · Post by **Mad-Machine** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:27 pm

I agree that the cowl mounted resevours are the way to go. I am intending on finding one for my 77. However, do know that you will need to replace the cowl to use it. As the resevour is totally hidden beneath it, it is specially made to allow the cap to poke through and provides the mounting tabs to hold it.

Mad-Machine · Post by **Mad-Machine** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:33 pm

Here you go, Danno. Found this on John Booth's spider. This is the rare radiator mounted hard tank. Once I can find a pic of the cowl mounted one, I will post that too.

Danno · Post by **Danno** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:25 am

Well, just won a couple of ebay auctions. Got this Bottle and pump. Can you guess what car they REALLY go to?

Hjulen · Post by **Hjulen** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:29 am

I just hope they are for a car

Look kinda kinky to me.

Sorry, couldn't help it.