A recent ice storm caused my passenger side windshield wiper to break.
It seems the motor is turning, but where the wiper arm attaches to the
"post", it might have stripped or something.
How is the arm attached, and how do I remove / repair it. Is this knurled,
or does it have a set screw? What am I looking for?

Thanks

Dave

Your foolishness caused it to break .Wipers frozen to window usually do
that. Wiper arms have an tapered spline on the drive spindle just replace
it and time the arms .

Sal


"DMHenrie" <dmhenrie (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote

Absolutely my "foolishness" caused it to break.
My fiance actually said (as we are driving down the road, in the middle of
an icestorm, with no scraper, no map, no gloves.. lost in a suburb of
Philadelphia late at night). She said, you know, your wiper doesnt seem to
be going down all the way.
And I said to myself, "Self, it'll be ok until I get to the hotel or until
we find a decent place to pull over without getting stuck"
Well, I was wrong. It started getting gimpy, and more gimpy. And then it
just died.

Where do I get these slines? A parts house like NAPA, or the Dealer?

Dave


"sal" <sjimk (AT) mts (DOT) net> wrote

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:52:52 GMT, "DMHenrie" <dmhenrie (AT) verizon (DOT) net>
wrote:

You hopefully don't need the new post, you have to buy a new wiper
arm. That is probably the part you stripped. If the post is stripped,
you will probably need to buy a new wiper assembly - motor, drive
arms, posts, etc.

Tom S.

try a junk yard too for the wiper assembly
"Tom S" <tscalfjr (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote

"DMHenrie" <dmhenrie (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote in
news:Ah1Lh.5039$zx.4232@trndny05:

dont blame yourself as much as others want you to. the UAW doesnt have
the strenghth to tighten nuts and bolts like they did when they were
viable..i have wiper arms slip on the transmission posts just from going
thru our carwash...............remove nut holding arm to transmission,
wiggle and pry arm from splined post, turn on wipers, if post is
rotateing back and forth no trans problem, use sharp knife and clean out
aluminum shavings from splines on post, try using original arm by
tightening well, if still slips under pressure replace arm.
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