MOPAR NOS 1970-71 Fury Chrysler 300 Polara 1971 Imperial washer bottle, 3431154

[cantflip]

For $600 you should be able to get a trunk monkey with a squeegee.

I found a perfect bottle back around 1998 or 99 and I mounted it in place on the fender to keep it safe. It sat protected for nearly 15 years until Paul looked it over in 2013. It had hardened to the point of being brittle and useless. What I don't know is why, some sort of chemical fumes in the garage or could it be the plastic gets brittle if it's left without any water? I don't know, but not knowing stops me from spending much coin for a NOS bottle.

I have read that plastic parts can be softened and made nice white again by simply putting them in a big pot of boiling water and boiled for a few minutes. The is also supposed to remove the yellow, rust color. A short read.

My bottle "looks" ok but has a few holes on the bottom, so I have been pondering how to fix it. I'm going start with a big pot of boiling water on my BBQ and try the boil-it-to-soften-it. If I can reduce the brittleness it will make handling it easier. Then I'm going to experiment with liners.

Something that starts as a liquid and sets or dries into a transparent strong flexible film would be ideal. If clear or white can't be found, maybe painting the inside first would hide a darker liner. Maybe paint the inside with clearcoat, then inflate a nice thick skinned balloon inside. The balloon would bond to the clearcoat and make everything water tight.

For now my car is about 99% complete and my trunk stored bottle of Windex works just fine.

Plastics out gas over time, the stuff from that era especially, underhood temps would speed this up... even NOS is likely to be more brittle than a new repop would be. This is why the demand is there and will still be there in the future. IDK if keeping it full would help or not, but these break easy even when the cars weren't that old.They used to be part of PA safety inspection, so I had lots of practice working on them in the 85-95 years.

 

[Wollfen]

So what type of plastic is the bottle made out of? Is it nylon based?

 

[Fury440]

So what type of plastic is the bottle made out of? Is it nylon based?

Good question, one I've been pondering myself. As soon as I can round up a pot or pail big enough, I'm going cook mine and see what happens. Probably can't make it worse.

 

[cantflip]

Good question, one I've been pondering myself. As soon as I can round up a pot or pail big enough, I'm going cook mine and see what happens. Probably can't make it worse.

If its already broken, not much to lose. If you like that it looks correct, I would experiment with a different one. I haven't done much with plastic welding... I wonder if that could help here. It's real easy to turn many plastics into useless junk trying to fix them... and washer solvents often contain alcohols that would attack coating materials. If anyone has any success with this... please let us know. I know this is cheap to produce plastic with a limited life span, its hard to believe they can't be reproduced more cheaply...

 

[Samplingman]

So what type of plastic is the bottle made out of? Is it nylon based?

I'd guess most likely ABS plastic, very commonly used in blow molding for its durability and flexibility. Boiling in water may make it more brittle, as would applying oil based chemicals. There is a process described on many toy websites that is used to restore the whiteness of old ABS using hydrogen peroxide and a UV lamp. I do not know about restoring flexibility, but this process makes the plastic look like new. I've also had great success with plastic welding using a low wattage soldering iron.

 

[commando1]

 

[73Coupe]

If he want to ask $600 for that piece of plastic, at least dust it off and take some nice pics of it. I mean, wouldn't an extra ten minutes of effort be worth it if you're gonna try to sucker somebody with disposable funds?

 

[saforwardlook]

Last time I talked with Bob Baker of ABCmoparts, he is still planning on trying to reproduce these. I gave him a nice one to use and destroy in the process. Time will tell when it comes to be..............

 

[DeMopuar]

I know that a friend of mine plastic welded these washer bottles and used old plastic milk jugs and a soldering gun. He said that the plastic is a dead ringer for this plastic that the overflow and washer bottles are made out of. Another thought that came to mind is YouTube. Has anyone searched that site to see if anyone has repaired these washer bottles and shows how to do it?

I'd experiment with a junk one before going to the real thing to repair to make sure as I do not have any personal experience with this.

 

[cm23uoc]

That repop I mentioned before is still a mystery. I even think the one I got in my 70 300 I personally ordered from this source now come to think of it over ten years ago but I can't find a bill of sale or anything and I usually Keep everything for this car in one Folder.
Think it was around 100 bucks shipped to Europe. Hope I didn't dream this up and it was a NOS, will have to take a look at the storage place.

 

[330dTA]

I need one immediately. Not going to toy around trying to solder together pieces of 46 years old broken and brittle plastic.

 

[polara71]

That repop I mentioned before is still a mystery. I even think the one I got in my 70 300 I personally ordered from this source now come to think of it over ten years ago but I can't find a bill of sale or anything and I usually Keep everything for this car in one Folder.
Think it was around 100 bucks shipped to Europe. Hope I didn't dream this up and it was a NOS, will have to take a look at the storage place.

They weren't reproduced. They were NOS and available by the dozen ten years ago

 

[cm23uoc]

In that case I should be checking if it hasn't disintegrated by now.

 

[commando1]

Just buy the one on eBay that shows every car built since the Curved Dash Oldsmobile because he spammed the "Fits: xxx" option...

 

[Wildaugust]

I remember seeing the C-Body bottles listed on Jeg's site as little as two years ago. They're not listed now. I'm thinking of trying the plastic welding idea myself. I'm 99% sure they're polyethylene. Here is a youtube video showing how to weld a polyethylene tank, but it's a lot thicker than these bottles, should be same basic principle though.

 

[luigi164]

This one starts low ?

MOPAR 3431154 WINDSHIELD WASHER BOTTLE RESERVOIR 1970 71 72 C BODY CHRYSLER FURY

 

[Wollfen]

This one starts low ?

MOPAR 3431154 WINDSHIELD WASHER BOTTLE RESERVOIR 1970 71 72 C BODY CHRYSLER FURY

TY! I put a bid on it!

 

[MrMoparCHP]

This is one of those items that I don't broadcast to the group, let those who find it find it. Keep the bidding pool small and not every troll jump on it as well.


Alan

 

[commando1]

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[Samplingman]

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