Asymmetrical Flip-Flap on wipers
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Originally Posted by
bmorgil
I would have thought the rigging would look more like a Sailing Ship to you LarrBeard!
What a wild set up. Did the wiper always hit? I wonder if something is worn to the point there is now excessive travel. I wonder how they limited the motion. You would think there would be some way to adjust it, with all that rigging involved.
As far as I remember; No, they didn't always hit...
I spent about thirty minutes just looking and measuring things this morning, and I think (think) i may have diagnosed the problem, and it goes back to the First Rule of Old Jeeps:
1. What you see is what you have ...
A better explanation will follow once I do some more looking, measuring and thunking
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Why The Wipers Won't Flip and Flap ...
Well, it turns out I don’t have a windshield wiper cable or pivot spring tensioner problem after all. The quick, simple answer turned out to be wrong! Imagine that?
Our First Law of Jeep (What you see is what you have) – can be restated “Take time to look at what you have”. Now, I’m not very smart and it takes time for things to sink in on me. I stood in front of the truck and just looked at it. It looked off centered.
Now, I didn’t think Willys-Overland would make an off-center driver/passenger side; especially since the truck could have been a right hand drive. I measured point A to point B. I measured point A to point C. I measured point B to C, divided by 2 – did some adding and subtracting and figured out it wasn’t really off center after all.
So, I stood and looked some more. I sat in the driver’s seat and looked. I sat in the passenger seat and looked (I never sit on that side). Then, Duhhh … .
It turns out that the problem is the windshield molding, the gasket that holds the glass. On the driver’s side the molding fits tightly against the crease in the window pillar. The outboard tip of the wiper clears the gasket by about a half-inch.
This is shown in photos A and B
But, on the passenger side, the gasket is ‘way out from the crease. As you can see, the wiper tip rests on the gasket by about the same half-inch, photos C and D; there's almost an inch difference in all!
That binds things up as you can guess. It doesn't look like all that much at first, but it adds up.
Now, there is no way I’m starting the windshield reset project again, so I’m getting a shorter blade from KWAS. (No – there in nothing at the local auto pieces place that will fit). The original blade is an 11-inch blade, but there is a 9-inch blade for a Jeepster. (There is also a shorter wiper arm for the Jeepster, but I don’t think I’ll need that). The passenger side will have a smaller wiped arc, but nobody on that side will need to see to drive. I’ll add a little RTV to the wiper pivot knob to secure the arm to the pivot to compensate for any wear to the knurls and I’ll see how that works.
Now – I just need to calibrate the gas gauge – another one of those projects no one talks about.