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On 21 Dec 99, at 23:00, Dave Hall wrote: > > > So why do my windshield wipers park in the up position in my T3 Ghia? > > > > Because the actuating arm is attached to the wiper motor gearbox > > shaft in the wrong position. > I don't think it's that Jim; the motor rotates the wrong way for the arms > he has waiting to be fitted. He can only put them on the shafts in the up > position. I think the blades are wrong for the right-side parking he has > (unless I've got the wrong end of the stick). > '71-on arms might work, if so (not sure of the length he needs). Actually, I'd be pretty willing to bet on this one. I don't think you can fit the wrong gearmotor, and I don't mean that he has the arm on upside down; it's just in the wrong rotational position. The only other time I saw this on a car I fretted over it for a week and never figured it out until the car was gone. Unfortunately it never came back. I had been assuming that the person who replaced the gearmotor had done it right, but that was a stupid assumption. This is why all the books show you which position to bolt the actuating arm onto the gearbox; not all of them explain that you really need to run the gearbox and let it "park" before you do this. - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe