Look What I Found Next to the Windshield Washer Tank
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Look What I Found Next to the Windshield Washer Tank
Can anyone tell me what this plastic item is clamped onto what looks to be the fuel line?
It spins around and looks like those magnet things that are supposed to improve mileage by atomizing the fuel.
This came on the car from Mazda when I bought it new but I didn't notice it till I was finishing off the A/C line insulation mod.
Does anyone else have this on their cars as well.
If it is the magnet fuel atomizer, all those posters that scoffed about them can laugh at Mazda for installing them on their cars.
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It spins around and looks like those magnet things that are supposed to improve mileage by atomizing the fuel.
This came on the car from Mazda when I bought it new but I didn't notice it till I was finishing off the A/C line insulation mod.
Does anyone else have this on their cars as well.
If it is the magnet fuel atomizer, all those posters that scoffed about them can laugh at Mazda for installing them on their cars.
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Originally Posted by 4 years to Supercharge
It spins around and looks like those magnet things that are supposed to improve mileage by atomizing the fuel.
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Originally Posted by 4 years to Supercharge
Can anyone tell me what this plastic item is clamped onto what looks to be the fuel line?
It spins around and looks like those magnet things that are supposed to improve mileage by atomizing the fuel.
This came on the car from Mazda when I bought it new but I didn't notice it till I was finishing off the A/C line insulation mod.
Does anyone else have this on their cars as well.
If it is the magnet fuel atomizer, all those posters that scoffed about them can laugh at Mazda for installing them on their cars.
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It spins around and looks like those magnet things that are supposed to improve mileage by atomizing the fuel.
This came on the car from Mazda when I bought it new but I didn't notice it till I was finishing off the A/C line insulation mod.
Does anyone else have this on their cars as well.
If it is the magnet fuel atomizer, all those posters that scoffed about them can laugh at Mazda for installing them on their cars.
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Magnet....
I don't laugh at you because you thought that clip was a magnet - I laugh because you were more than ready to believe they work!
(I also chuckle in your general direction because you believe that insulating that pipe will make any difference! )
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(I also chuckle in your general direction because you believe that insulating that pipe will make any difference! )
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Originally Posted by StealthTL
I don't laugh at you because you thought that clip was a magnet - I laugh because you were more than ready to believe they work!
(I also chuckle in your general direction because you believe that insulating that pipe will make any difference! )
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(I also chuckle in your general direction because you believe that insulating that pipe will make any difference! )
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Well the good news on insulating the A/C pipe is that at least it made someone chuckle. Not sure what other benefits as of yet since I installed it when it was about time for the leaves to fall. I just wrapped it in conduit so it looks fine. No blazing aluminum heat tape to shod up under the hood. :D
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It's protection for the connection and I suspect to keep the connection from breaking in the passenger cabin in the event of an accident (being shoved into the cabin - it's too big to fit through the hole).
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Silly *******, Its the retainer clip on the refrigeration line that seperates two linear a/c lines and is o-ringed so as to be a non leaking joint. There I said it.
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Originally Posted by 4 years to Supercharge
It spins around and looks like those magnet things that are supposed to improve mileage by atomizing the fuel.
Yep, definately a "clip."
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OK the guy at Mazda said he dont know what the hell it is or what its function is but if I had a part nu# he could find out what its used for an let me know.
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Originally Posted by DOMINION
OK the guy at Mazda said he dont know what the hell it is or what its function is but if I had a part nu# he could find out what its used for an let me know.
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Hey McFly, don't you know that's the newly redesigned flux capacitor. Just like the lack of torque and possibility of the 8 not having the horse power that is reported, Mazda can't figure out how to get 1.31 jigawatts out of this bad boy yet. Oh well.