--- "William J. Rice" <jarvis64@juno.com> wrote:
> What's all this talk about where wipers "park?" Mine
> pretty much stay
> wherever they were when I shut them off (or, more likely,
> quit moving
> them with my hand). Is there a parking position? Is
> that what that
> divot in the switch is for? Seems unnecessary . . .
>
> b
Yup - the drill is that you pull put on the lever and swing
it to the side, dropping the point on the lever into the
divot on the switch.
@When you want to use them, you park the blade dead center,
switch on the motor, then the motor will spin up, engage
the blade and everyone goes off merrily on their way.
A lot of the problem with the single-motor wipers is the
grease going bad in them and needing to be cleaned and
relubed. When this happens, it puts a lot of strain on the
clutch as assembled inside the wiper (the shaft engaging
the hollow tube driveshaft from the gear). The shaft
engagement wears, so a lot of the arc gets slopped up
there.
An easy fix is to strip the motor, clean and relube it,
then turn the shaft engagement piece around on the shaft by
driving out the pin, sliding it off and back on again the
opposite way, then re-pinning it. This way, the worn side
of it engages the handle (and keeping the nut tight will
deal with that) and the good side goes to the gear shaft.
Gotta love these Lucas motors - a new set of brushes and
some grease and even the most abused of them takes right
off running like new.
ajr
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