Just noticed the beams of sunlight shining through your dash radio grille. Obviously the Lord blessing your new wiper motor...
We’re off to Goodwood for the Revival tomorrow in the 911, and then on to Somerset for a few days. On my return I’ve decided that the whole wiper assembly is coming off again, so I can put it in the vice, and make a concerted effort to get the circlips off that hold the spindles into their tubes. Snotty’s right, the fact that they are tight will be why the original motor went, and why my wipers are still slow. They need a good clean and lube. I’d thought of trying to get the circlips off in situ, but one slip and the paint is ruined, worse than stabbing my finger again.
Have a good go. They should move freely, with little resistance. If they are siezed, the motor will surely strip again - lot of torque from that big cog!
Well I’ve got the assembly off, ignoring the warnings on here I’ve dropped the bracket screw into the heater tube, and fired one of the spindle circlips into the far corner of the garage, it’ll probably turn up in a few years. The steel spindles must have had water get in, both had rust on the bearing surface that I’ve been polishing out with 400 wet and dry.
Yep I think I will need to take mine off again and attempt the circlip removal - I don’t have spares so I didn’t risk firing one across the garage (or scratching the paint) but I don’t think just dribbling penetrating oil down them will be enough. think these pliers will do the job? https://www.screwfix.com/p/circlip-plier-set-5-pieces/1988v
I’ve a few pairs of circlip pliers, but because the ends of the circlips are so far apart I got nowhere with them. Pushing a screwdriver against one end just rotated the clip, in the end a pair side by side pushed together did the trick, while one just pinged off into the void, the other moved so the shaped ends were in the slot and I was able to get a small screwdriver to pry the clip off gently. I’ve ordered a replacement for the one I’ve lost from Schofield’s.
Neither. Just a c ring with a gap. The nuts have to go over it. Seem to remember just pushing on both ends simultaneously with a single flat blade screwdriver tip aligned with the slot in the shaft pushing towards the shaft makes the far side stick up enough to get hold of it with needle nose pliers. No pinging needed .
Much against the odds, I just managed to find the missing C clip in the chaos that is the corner of my garage! Considering that it tiny and black I never expected to see it again. Using a bright torch helped. I'll be more careful next time.
Snotty’s right, years of looking for dropped lenses mean I’m a dab hand at shining a torch along the floor. I gave up contacts last year when I got Covid, I’m quite happy back on the spec’s, and I just can’t be arsed to go back to the lenses. The wipers are back on, I had a struggle playing around with the snotty bracket trying to stop a noise every time they got to full stretch, but once I’d put the wipers on the spindles and tightened them up, the noise was gone. Next I must try going out in the rain.
I got round to doing this last weekend, piece of cake, I now have fully functional wipers with the new chinese motor thanks to Snotty's simple conversion, happy days!
Today up in Northumbria and Cumbria it has been mostly bucketing down. Were it not for our trial outing in September ending in a failed wiper motor followed by a replacement using the Snotty kit, we would have been well and truly fecked today.
Yep, I was out yesterday and used my new snotty-brand wipers, very impressive; combination of a new motor and lubed spindles and my wipers were better than ever.
Well this is what happens when I read stuff. I've ordered a new wiper motor , eBay gave me 15% off too for 16.57 it's a cheap way to have 2 speeds again and decent wipers hopefully Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
Reading this forum costs a fortune....buying all the things you discover you need/haven't got/ aren't actually working properly.
