Date:         Sun, 3 Mar 2002 15:04:11 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon Wiper Arms
Comments: To: dbeierl@attglobal.net
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Out of approximately thirty different foreign and domestic cars I've
owned in the last thirty years, it appears that superior German
engineering makes this the only vehicle that eats the wiper arms. Why is
that?

Stan
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> Stan, there is no upgrade -- the system is very carefully designed
> to
> protect you (and the rest of the linkage) from yourself in these
> cases.  If
> you make that part stronger, it will find something under the dash
> to
> destroy instead, or tear the rubber off the blades.
>
> If you're not *thoroughly* cleaning out the stripped metal from the
> splines
> on the shaft and properly tightening the connection to make deep new
>
> splines in the socket, it will strip much too easily.
>
> david
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
>
>
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