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A few weeks ago, I rudely interrupted a thread by asking what it takes to remove the windshield washer reservoir (in the nearly six years I've owned my car, I've never once turned on the windshield squirters, and now that I'm converting it to a mostly-track car, it's just dead weight). Well, it turns out to be pretty simple, and there's no need to remove the fender. You do need to remove the passenger side fender liner, then there are two readily visible and reachable nuts underneath, and one bolt on the inside of the fender well in the battery compartment, that come off. Finally, you have to remove the two phillips screws from above holding the filler neck in place. Once these nuts, bolt, and screws are off, the reservoir slides right out.



I was very pleased to find that mine was almost completely full, so I weighed it, and it came to a whopping 12 pounds! Woo-hoo! I'm well on my way toward my goal of pulling 200 pounds out of my car, and a much-larger-than-expected proportion has come out of the front end. I'm going to have to get a lexan hatch window to compensate!



The next step is to hunt down the windshield washer motor, and yank that as well.



Anybody want to buy a windshield washer reservoir...?

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If you just run with an empty reservoir do you still save most of the weigh. IE: was it just the fluid that made up the majority?

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If you just run with an empty reservoir do you still save most of the weigh. IE: was it just the fluid that made up the majority?

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Yes, that's true - the fluid is what makes up most of the weight. I went ahead and removed (and sold) mine anyway, as it was a pretty simple task. But if you think you may ever use it, draining the fluid may the the smarter alternative.

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