By Anonymous ( - 204.201.251.135) on Monday, January 31, 2000 - 04:02 pm:

alright, when i got my 78 1200 it did not have a windshield wiper fluid system - no tubes, no sprayers, no reservoir. anyway, so i went to the junkyard, and acquired all of it. i put it in. so now i have a windshield washer. but where the hell is the reservoir supposed to go? it was plugged into the right wiring harness when i pulled it, so it wasn't hard to hook it up in my car, and it works fine, but the reservoir was laying on the battery tray when i found it and i couldn't figure out where it's suppossed to go so it's kinda resting on the brake system right now. where is it supposed to go?

By Adrian (Civicguru) on Monday, January 31, 2000 - 04:07 pm:

I assume you got one of the bag types (the correct one). There should be 2 holes in the flap at the top of the bag. The proper battery holddown bracket has 2 tabs that you poke through these holes and the bag sits against the battery.

By DrZOOM ( - 205.151.119.89) on Monday, January 31, 2000 - 04:24 pm:

I hate those pee pee bag things. If your 78 is like mine you will have a plastic bottle that goes behind the left headlight. It mounts on a v shaped bracket that you might be missing. The bracket mounts inside the left fender wall right behind the headlight with 2 bolts and your bottle should slide right into it. You can see mine in this older picture. Its the white plastic bottle that you see in the top left corner of the picture.

By Anonymous ( - 204.201.251.135) on Monday, January 31, 2000 - 06:34 pm:

oh. i pulled it off a 77? i think. it's a "pee pee bag" as you may put it.

By Anonymous ( - 204.201.251.114) on Monday, January 31, 2000 - 10:29 pm:

alright, so where in the hell might i find the proper battery hold down?

By 2LOW2GO on Monday, January 31, 2000 - 11:27 pm:

Try the dealer!!! i picked up two they were around $11.00 each!!! Hey Jim u can only use the stock washer bottles if u have the room!! try puttin one of them in if u have a crx or integra motor..hehehe

By Peter on Tuesday, February 01, 2000 - 04:22 am:

Or a city turbo motor at that....u know how much crap they come with?. By the way the standard clips snap off easily

By Anonymous ( - 204.201.251.159) on Tuesday, February 01, 2000 - 02:34 pm:

is the standard hold-down plastic or metal?

By quikrick on Tuesday, February 01, 2000 - 03:42 pm:

It is plastic covered metal.

By Elisabeth ( - 208.189.193.193) on Wednesday, February 02, 2000 - 12:50 pm:

Yes, the bracket is a plastic-covered metal. It goes across the top of the battery and I painted mine bright orange because it was all rusted up and the plasic was 90% already mising. I was pulling parts off of a '77 wagon, and I *think* it had the bag and bracket system...

By Becks (203.96.111.202) on Sunday, February 04, 2001 - 04:54 am:

I had one of those brackets but it slipped into my radiatior fan so i recomend the bottle over the pee pee bag anyday

By quikrick (63.204.16.66) on Monday, February 05, 2001 - 07:55 am:

Becks, That is hilarious. My battery hold down hook arm once fell into the radiator fan also. It made such a racket that I thought something really really bad happend! Just a lot of noise.

By Anonymous (203.102.206.2) on Monday, February 05, 2001 - 02:16 pm:

Anyone tried putting pee in that bag? I've heard that it makes a great window cleaning agent. Takes off all that road grime and scum no problem...

By tedshred (63.224.195.169) on Monday, February 05, 2001 - 02:49 pm:

I'm going to hunt for that plastic bottle. Never liked the look of the bag.

By Becks (203.96.111.200) on Saturday, February 10, 2001 - 02:39 am:

lol well froma female prospective im not even goin there anony. Yea i thought my accelirator was stuck but nope it was only the damn hold down. I now use a newer model civic bottle and it does the trick a gem