On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Mike Collum wrote: > Matt Drew wrote: >> Turned on the wipers. No bueno... >> >> Is there an easy adjustment to correct the problem? > ......................... > Never twist the wiper arms to their proper position after they've been > put onto the shafts as this will only serve to cut and remove more of > the soft metal in the arms. Oooops! Did this this am when scraping the windshield while the westy was warming up. Noticed after awhile as I was scraping 2-3" of snow/ice off the windshield, that the wipers were on but frozen to the windshield!!!!! -broke the wipers free, & they started moving to 6" below the windshield-not good-quickly moved the arm up so that they were in correct position once again. I wonder if I have any soft metal left in the arms????? They did work properly while driving after that, but that couldn't have been good for them? YMMV, Mr. BZ-remember to turn off wipers when I shut off vanagon next time! |
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