think jedi
True Classic
I'm going to take a brief break from shoehorning that console back in. Instead, I decided to find my wipers and install them. I couldn't find them for the longest time and had resorted to buying Porsche 944 wipers to attempt a retrofit. They weren't working out the way I had hoped and I really didn't want to do permanent modifications to the spindles to make them work, so I was ecstatic when I had an epiphany and located my wipers tucked away in my shed on top of a box of Scorpion spares I have no immediate use for. I remembered seeing them a couple of months ago when I was looking around in there for something related to my RX-7 and had assumed those were spares for the RX-7. Anyway, here they are:
A little rough, but complete! The wiper blades could use renewing but I'm happy to even have them. I decided that I can't put them on the car looking like the did, so I went to work with a wire wheel, stripper and sand paper to get the old coating off.
Then I coated it with several coats of SEM black trim paint. God I love this stuff!
So then I go to put the wipers on and it's then I realize that the nuts that came with the car are some sort of castle nuts and are NOT OEM. In fact, they don't even screw onto the post.
I flipped them around and they do hand-tighten over the post, but THIS is not going to do:
I had to go back to a movie I took 3 years ago after I'd picked up the car to confirm that yes, these were the nuts that I got with the car and YES, they were installed upside down. They had to have been put on hand tight as I didn't have a wrench thin enough to get under the hat of the nut to tighten it down.
So, great. An easy-ish project has been stalled while I look for suitable replacements. Luckily, I found a wiper assembly in the UK with the nuts still on the spindles, so I'm trying to work out a deal to get them sent here.
tJ
A little rough, but complete! The wiper blades could use renewing but I'm happy to even have them. I decided that I can't put them on the car looking like the did, so I went to work with a wire wheel, stripper and sand paper to get the old coating off.
Then I coated it with several coats of SEM black trim paint. God I love this stuff!
So then I go to put the wipers on and it's then I realize that the nuts that came with the car are some sort of castle nuts and are NOT OEM. In fact, they don't even screw onto the post.
I flipped them around and they do hand-tighten over the post, but THIS is not going to do:
I had to go back to a movie I took 3 years ago after I'd picked up the car to confirm that yes, these were the nuts that I got with the car and YES, they were installed upside down. They had to have been put on hand tight as I didn't have a wrench thin enough to get under the hat of the nut to tighten it down.
So, great. An easy-ish project has been stalled while I look for suitable replacements. Luckily, I found a wiper assembly in the UK with the nuts still on the spindles, so I'm trying to work out a deal to get them sent here.
tJ