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Re: Stupid, stupid, stupid

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Subject: Re: Stupid, stupid, stupid
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:57:04 -0700
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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Max Heim
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