Electric wipers.

biff · April 01, 2015, 05:46:40 PM

Well i jumped in on puting electric wipers on my mc8. so far so good. but it takes a lot of fab work. but i think it will be worth it.plus im saving over 600.00 bucks.

gumpy · April 01, 2015, 05:55:51 PM

did the same on my MC9. Bought a kit that was designed for some other brand and "modified" them. Getting them to fit and work right was a lot of time, but I love them.

biff · April 01, 2015, 06:42:33 PM

Hay gumpy. or any one else do you remember the lenth of arms you ended up with on the motor and wiper shaft.thats going to be a trip getting that right. $:-\$

gumpy · April 02, 2015, 02:23:50 AM

I can measure them tonight. Arms and blades both.

Oh wait, you probably mean the arm on the back side. No. I don't recall, and it's not easy getting in there. I'll see if I have any photos I can post or send.

TomC · April 02, 2015, 07:05:22 AM

I did the same thing on my AMGeneral transit. Had new arms made. Love the delay feature. Even though it has two motors, the electronic controller synchronizes them to stay running together. A lot of work to get them mounted, making a conversion plate, but now worth it. Not dreading rain with the old air wipers just stopping in mid stream for no reason. Good Luck, TomC

oltrunt · April 02, 2015, 08:25:45 AM

Gumpy, I would greatly appreciate a few pics if you have them as the wipers on my '90 MCI 9 need to be repaired. Thanks, Jack

gumpy · April 02, 2015, 06:04:18 PM

I'll post some photos in the next few posts...

gumpy · April 02, 2015, 06:05:56 PM

"The message body was left empty."

Yes, it was.

gumpy · April 02, 2015, 06:06:55 PM

"The message body was left empty."

I know!

gumpy · April 02, 2015, 06:11:54 PM

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gumpy · April 02, 2015, 06:12:41 PM

oltrunt · April 03, 2015, 06:33:10 AM

Thanks Gumpy, that was very helpful. Jack

gumpy · April 03, 2015, 02:22:40 PM

I didn't put any comments in. The photos are hopefully self explanatory. The first one is a comparison of the old air wiper and what I started with. Again, these were designed for
some high end bus wannabe RV, I think. I got a good deal. They are Autex, so good quality. I chopped and welded to get something that would work. You'll notice I had to notch
the arm a bit, but it's precise and works great. I get perfect swing on them, but that required a few iterations of cutting and welding the short arm.

Mine are independently powered. I had to drill new holes in the dash below the instrument cluster because the new switches interfered. But I like them better there,
and I like independent control. If I recall, I used an electric pump from the explorer we scrapped for the washer fluid. The new arms have on-arm sprayers. I just had to
put some barbs in the washer towers and route the tubing in the dash. I got the barb kit from C&J. The threads are "special" so finding barbs was a problem. They had the
kit, though to change to on-arm washers. Cheap and easy.

Just take your time, and it's not too bad. Use as much of the original stuff as you can to make it fit.

biff · April 03, 2015, 06:16:49 PM

We got new idler pins and brackets welded and bolted together today.now i got to figure out the length of the drive arms.i think i have a plan to figure them out!

im going to try make temp adj arms. to get the stroke and speed right. $:-\$

biff · April 07, 2015, 06:38:33 PM

Well worked on arms today what a pain. will try them out out tomorrow. >:(One good point about this project most of the work has been on the bench.lot better than laying under the bus.