Electric wiper Parking backwards.

Discussion in '1947-1954' started by Sethmark, Oct 8, 2014.

  1. Sethmark

    Sethmark Member

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    I'm tired and not thinking. I'm in the middle of replacing the electric wiper motor in my 53 that burned up. As the transmission moves, the drivers arm is on top and the passenger on bottom, right?

    If so, why are the wipers parking up instead of down????
     
  2. ol' chebby

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    Disconnect arms, let motor park. set arms back on rocker in park position. If they work backwards, switch arms on rocker. Also make shure the wires go to the proper terminals.
     
  3. Sethmark

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    The arms bind on the transmission if you reversed them.

    Let me expand this a little bit. The long arm, the passenger arm has to be on the bottom. The drivers arm has to be on the top otherwise it hits the defrost vents on the stroke.

    So with those being absolute, it should park with the wipers on the upstroke. Instead of parking on the down stroke leaving them up. I can't see any way to reverse the park position as there is only a high and low switch, battery power and switched power.
     
    Last edited: Oct 9, 2014

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