Chris in Canada
True Classic
can anyone direct me to a thread on how to speed up the wipers on my’78? I’ve heard of the “brown wire mod” but that’s for the ‘79 and up,right?
IIRCC the brown wire threads all center around 78 & older or 81/82 & newer as far as I know there isn't anything on the 79-80. This means your in luck. Do the brown wire mod and it will help. I think there's a wiper and headlight relay mod that you can do as well. All of this info is available in the archives/ search function. GLcan anyone direct me to a thread on how to speed up the wipers on my’78? I’ve heard of the “brown wire mod” but that’s for the ‘79 and up,right?
Vick’s has a wiper relay kit but says it’s for ‘79 and up, 6 wire? Can this be fitted to the ‘78?IIRCC the brown wire threads all center around 78 & older or 81/82 & newer as far as I know there isn't anything on the 79-80. This means your in luck. Do the brown wire mod and it will help. I think there's a wiper and headlight relay mod that you can do as well. All of this info is available in the archives/ search function. GL
Before you go through all that, remove the wiper assembly and make sure the linkage is not rusted up and binding. It's rather common to have all the pivot points to have lost any lubrication and/or rusted up. Without taking care of that first, you are wasting your time with all manner of electrical wizardry.
Why spend hours fixing something right, when a $10 wiring fix does the job in 5 minutes?Yes, Todd, I was there but who cares about that crap when my rat had neither wipers nor lights! You can crank all the 12v juice you want through that poor wiper motor but if the linkage is binding it won't help much. It's hard to be a mechanical engineer in the day of electrons.
I can buy bottles of Lucas smoke to reinstall in my electronics on ebay. It's cheap.Hey look, your wiper motor smokes!
Piggy was at my son's house until yesterday. He shows up at my house on Friday in time to start smoking. Larry was a good pig.Todd, is the pig for the pig roast roaming in your back yard. While I will be driving right by your house, I'll be on the way to Akron.