Hey guys,
For any of you that read my question about wipers the other day, please forget
EVERYTHING I asked and said about my GT. In the 2 years the car has been
stripped I had forgotten how they worked. I had expected that the wipers
would park as a modern car would, in front of the passenger, so as I stated
the blades just didn't sit right that way. As you may remember, I tore apart
the arms and flipped them to park that way. Yesterday I powered them up and
they rotated down onto the body, I blew the fuse but did no damage. By some
stroke of luck I had my photo album on hand so I checked the picture of before
I tore down the car, and the blades parked in front of the driver.
I thought to myself, it will still be better to park them out of the way. I
verified the drive mechanisms were centered to avoid missing the area in front
of the driver; I then pulled the motor, flipped the drive arm on the gear so
they would park the other way, and reinstalled it. I turned them on and they
worked perfectly except for leaving a huge unswept area in front of the
driver. So out came the motor, undo everything I just did, off come the arms
and put them back how they came, and try again.
After all this fiddling I am back to where the engineers put everything to
begin with. DAMN I HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!! I thought I was doing myself a
favor, but in all this time I forgot how these things worked to begin with. I
ended up causing myself a lot of work for nothing but some greater
understanding, which is, at least, a small consolation.
To everyone that was confused by what I was asking about wiper arms the other
day, sorry I was unduly confusing everyone. As it turns out I was asking a
question based on an assumption that was incorrect.
james
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