A good story, and a lesson for us all... thanks for posting it!
on 4/13/02 1:15 AM, james at jamesnazarian@netzero.net wrote:
> 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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