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On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 13:40, D. & L. Walters wrote: > Afternoon everyone, had a couple of quick questions for you all, hoping there might be on > or two answers out there. I was rebuiling the wiper motor for the '73 the other day, I > found a wire had pulled loose from the gear housing, either from the motor laying around > for a year or from over aggresive cleaning. It's a larger gauge red wire, it runs from a > black epoxy filled module that is bolted to the wiper gear housing, it "appears" to have > been soldered to a terminal with a black/yellow wire that runs out the pigtail to the > steering column/wiper switch. It is a very lousing solder job, clumpy and dirty with > rosin. Maybe a repair at one point? Does anyone know if it indeed is sharing a post with > the black/yellow wire? This black "module" dosen't appear in any of my manuals, but it > does have the VW part number "311 955 203" on it. Pictures of the whole mess are at > "http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/waltee@prodigy.net/lst?.dir=/Notchback+pics&.src=ph&.view=t";. > It looks to me, that that may be some type of radio suppresion device. I don't remember seeing anything like that on a stock wiper motor. That would also explain a poor solder job. Some kid at a stereo shop laying on his back under the dash trying to solder it in. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org