On my long road trip this summer my Windshield Wipers started to fail in New Brunswick. I stopped at a parts store in St. Pascal Quebec to change the wiper blades on my car. My right wiper arm failed completely on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago in a torrential Rain Storm.
My drivers side wiper arm would sometimes only lift half way or not at all and crash into the other one. Quite annoying and naturally there was a lot of rain on my drive. I looked at the Wiper issue when i finally got back to my drive way the first thing i tried was tightening up the nut on the wiper arm. That did not work, so i tried tightening it up some more and with a snapping sound the wiper arm broke... oops.
Off to the junk yard I went and i found an almost exact wiper arm from a 1988 Mercury Tracer. I tried installing that and tightened that up to much to and broke it too doh!
I decided to take the Wiper system apart after removing the wiper motor and disconnecting the linkage I diagnosed the problem. the pin that holds the drivers side bushing was occasionally moving with the linkage when it should be stationary. I took the linkage to a machine shop and he jammed a sturdy metal pin to prevent the other pin from moving.
After getting back home and installing everything the wiper system has worked perfect ever since.
On my long road trip this summer my Windshield Wipers started to fail in New Brunswick. I stopped at a parts store in St. Pascal Quebec to change the wiper blades on my car. My right wiper arm failed completely on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago in a torrential Rain Storm.
My drivers side wiper arm would sometimes only lift half way or not at all and crash into the other one. Quite annoying and naturally there was a lot of rain on my drive. I looked at the Wiper issue when i finally got back to my drive way the first thing i tried was tightening up the nut on the wiper arm. That did not work, so i tried tightening it up some more and with a snapping sound the wiper arm broke... oops.
Off to the junk yard I went and i found an almost exact wiper arm from a 1988 Mercury Tracer. I tried installing that and tightened that up to much to and broke it too doh!
I decided to take the Wiper system apart after removing the wiper motor and disconnecting the linkage I diagnosed the problem. the pin that holds the drivers side bushing was occasionally moving with the linkage when it should be stationary. I took the linkage to a machine shop and he jammed a sturdy metal pin to prevent the other pin from moving.
After getting back home and installing everything the wiper system has worked perfect ever since.
- daihatsu, Calgary, AB, Canada