well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews do you have a silverado maybe an f-150 or Dodge
Ram and on your multi-function switch you know on your steering column you press the wash for
your windshield washers and it doesn't work well I've had this on my truck for quite a long time
this problem we're only in the wintertime when it is severely cold I don't expect a lot of people
have actually experienced this before but this might help some people out there but yeah I kind
of did some kind of a redneck resolve for I'm gonna show you guys today and what the symptoms
were was I press for the wash nothing would come out and I thought okay the pumps dead or something
like that or maybe the multifunction switch is not working right and then it would warm up everything
would work fine so of course I got my test light out there and I'm checking all kinds of stuff and
it works perfectly all the time except when it's severely cold so I'm gonna show you what I did and
go get a little bit of a chuckle but uh this is how you fix stuff up in the North when you're a
redneck well there we go right there you can see where I am in the truck here and up against the
firewall this is my 2002 chevy silverado 2500 HD and you can see what I've done there I'll see if
I can get the light a little bit better but all I have done is installed another pump in line
and there's the little bit of a relay I put in there and go take you inside the truck and show
you what I did well here we are inside the truck this is the original multifunction switch and
there you go right there and that gives you your wash you see that green button over there guys
I'm gonna take you up on the windshield wiper here I'll show you right there guys is that not slick
or what well what did you think that I mean now I've got two pumps I am backed up to the back up
to make sure that when we put the windshield washer fluid on its gonna go on and for me I
couldn't find out any other result I mean yeah I could just throw a brand-new multifunction switch
at it I really don't know what's going on whether that pump is freezing up or whether the switch is
no good so in my mind I'm thinking back up tight and that's what I done you wanna get a little bit
of a kick here I'll show you my little bit of a part spin here of some of the stuff that I just
keep on hand for stuff like this so let's take a look well here we go here and I've got a whole
bunch of this style here and the ones that I used were over here and of course you got to get the
red and you got to get the green and this was so simple just two connectors and of course all the
load is at the relay this is just a yeah an input and guys these are really cheap now you have some
that go off and stay off or on and then you have some that are just momentary and maybe I could
find one in here that's actually momentary but I do have some that are momentary and
you think I'm gonna find one when I'm on camera there we go right there there's one right there
so that's the one that I use because of course you just don't want it to have stay on so this
is just some of the stuff that I keep on hand well I hope you like that it's a little bit of
a redneck fix there but think about it you can just go to the store get yourself another pump
put it in line I didn't touch anything down at the reservoir and it works in addition to
what I have there already and up here in Canada when you have the the winters like we do and you
need some windshield washer fluid to clean your windscreen well guess what you gotta have backup
and that's what I got here today so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this
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