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Wiper Mechanism
Alan M - 14/6/10 at 01:11 PM

Help please!

How can you work out the correct position to drill the scuttle for the wiper spindle holes?

Thanks in advance

BenB - 14/6/10 at 01:49 PM

Work out the sweep in angles, work out the length of the blades and arms, work out where you want the blades to be then work backwards. Quite tricky to do. I did the passenger side first and it was a few CM out so when I did the drivers side I compensated for it.

Bluemoon - 14/6/10 at 02:25 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BenB
Work out the sweep in angles, work out the length of the blades and arms, work out where you want the blades to be then work backwards. Quite tricky to do. I did the passenger side first and it was a few CM out so when I did the drivers side I compensated for it.


Same as me.. Also used masking tape to draw out sweep on screen and held blade+arm at different positions.. Not that simple to do, pain really. Measure many many times hopefully drill once! The issue I found was that I needed really short blades, much shorter than ideal (still works well despite this!)..

Also needed to mod the arms to fit (much shorter than normal).. Found the stainless arms almost un-drill-able, very hard stuff (blunted my center punch!!)...

Think about how the angle the spring+arm makes, you can get to close to the screen and make some arms bind...

Cheers

Dan

[Edited on 14/6/10 by Bluemoon]

Alan M - 14/6/10 at 02:33 PM

Not a job to attempt with a hangover then!

Thanks a lot for all your help

iscmatt - 14/6/10 at 02:40 PM

Some links that hopefully will be of help (on an MK)

Measurements

Link


Hood (if your interested)