windscreen wiper

stone · Hornet Joined: Jul 31, 2009 Posts: 210 Location: france

hello

you can m explain how functions the windscreen wiper ? which system? they go very slowly and are blocked, that then I to make? I want to regulate that before taking the road to bring back the car to the house Sunday

thank you

stone

51hornet · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: windscreen wiper

The windshield wipers are vacuum powered. They work off of engine vacuum usually from a fitting on the intake manifold. They are notoriously slow when the leather seal inside the vacuum motor dries out. If at the best of times they are slow.

You can often soften up the leather seal by putting a little neatsfoot oil into the vacuum fitting on the wiper motor and letting them run for a bit. If the wiper motor still functions slowly you can try rebuilding the unit.

Or finally you can replace with a electric motor. Though these can be expensive and you will have to do a little work to get it fitted.

Here are some links.

www.wiperman.com/

www.julianos.com/elect...sions.html