At 10:10 AM 4/25/00 -0400, Fred Thomas wrote:
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>Listers, raining a good bit this a.m., coming back from the store the wipers
>gave a little binding noise then completely stopped, where is the best place
>to start, 1978 spit 1500. Thanks "FT"
Fred,
I think you should start at the beginning. Do you have electricity to the
motor?
If not, either a blown fuse, a bad wiper switch, or a burned wire.
If you DO have power at the wiper (with the switch on), then could be
a bad ground, or more than likely the brushes are gone, and you'll need
to rebuild the motor.
As Douglas Braun pointed out, it could also be the linkage mechanism.
But I doubt it. Never seen that go bad. But that doesn't mean it can't.
Douglas also makes a great point, "On mine, the bush for the motor shaft
at the bottom of the motor case got all dried out and chattery, and the
grease on the gearbox was all gummed up."
This will also cause problems. If you decide to take the assembly apart,
besure to clean all the old grease out of the wheel house and put in new
grease.
If you think it's electrical, check out the 2 articles on the wiper motors
on my Morgan web page.
John
After cleaning everything out and re-lubing it, the wipers ran quietly,
and twice as fast.
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
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