Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:36:07 -0400
Reply-To: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject: One more thing: Windshield Wiper Question
Malcolm is right on the money. No need to remove the dash, or rip the van
apart.
Follow MS's procedure, but while you have the wiper arm off the little cone
shaped wiper-driver post, clean the teeth of the post with a sharp object,
like a sewing needle or safety pin. You will find the teeth full of the pot
metal of the wiper arm, and if you don't clean out the teeth, your wiper
arm will get loose again, and come out of position.
Consider lubing the mechanism with white lithium spray grease. Check the
archives for the procedure, post by this writer within the last 7 days.
Cheers,
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Corporate Communications Counselors
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Mount Olive, NC USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Stebbins [SMTP:Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 8:13 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Windshield Wiper Question
You're close: From the outside, take off the plastic cap at the pivot post
of
the wiper arm, unscrew the nut, Now you have to wiggle and maybe pry (put
a piece of wood against the van) the wiper off, it may be a bit difficult.
Then
take the wiper arm off, and put it back on in the "correct" position and
test
before you screw the nut back on. NO NOT pivot the wiper while it is on
the
post as you will wear off the teeth. The nut has to go on quite snugly as
it is
mainly friction that holds the arm on,put the plastic cap back on. IMHO
you
do not have to go up under the dash to re-position the wipers. Malcolm
John wrote:
> My right front windshield wiper does not appear to be not loose but it
rests
> just below the window line and then hits the rubber grommet between
window and
> front part of the cab when operating. I have a 90 Wesfalia. I checked
my
> Bentley's but thought I could move the arm up a little bit just by just
> loosening the external screw rather than go through the glove
compartment. But
> that did not work and now that screw does not move at all. Do I just go
through
> the glove compartment and is that how I align the wiper arm above the
window? I
> am--obviously-- pretty new at tinkering with my van.
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