Need help w/ wiper motor - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

vilant · 06-18-2012

I just purchased a 1990 Red ZR1 #2599. Was referred to this site from another ZR owner at the CCDV. Just sent in my check yesterday should be a full member here soon. I followed the threads in tech data to wiper motor removal, but for some reason that's the only thread where nothing comes up when I click on it(may have been removed). Anyway, I just noticed the wipers only come up @ 1" then go back down, I assume (you know what they say about that) the motors are shot, or maybe if I get them out, I can take a part the motor and see what's wrong. Problem is the wiper arms don't come up far enough for me to get the one screw out.

I don't want to just rip the arm up and make things worse. Any suggestions or tips on how to fix the wipers? Thx, Joe

HAWAIIZR-1 · 06-18-2012

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Originally Posted by vilant

I just purchased a 1990 Red ZR1 #2599. Was referred to this site from another ZR owner at the CCDV. Just sent in my check yesterday should be a full member here soon. I followed the threads in tech data to wiper motor removal, but for some reason that's the only thread where nothing comes up when I click on it(may have been removed). Anyway, I just noticed the wipers only come up @ 1" then go back down, I assume (you know what they say about that) the motors are shot, or maybe if I get them out, I can take a part the motor and see what's wrong. Problem is the wiper arms don't come up far enough for me to get the one screw out.

I don't want to just rip the arm up and make things worse. Any suggestions or tips on how to fix the wipers? Thx, Joe

Joe,

Welcome to the family. Being that is might be more common on C4 forum, I would suggest going to the "other" forum for this (corvettefor_m.com) in the C4 technical section. I have good success finding C4 issues there. Good luck with that.

Craig

vilant · 06-18-2012

Thank you for your help guys. It is greatly appreciated. After I fix the wiper motors (already fixed the radio and headlight motors), she'll be 100% again. Thx

Z Factor · 06-19-2012

Hello Joe, and welcome to the forum.

WB9MCW · 06-20-2012

Hi vilant and welcome to our ZOO!

vilant · 06-20-2012

Thanks, your car looks great. Will be posting pics of mine soon, when we get back from the shore.

06-18-2012	#1
vilant Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: PA Posts: 772	Need help w/ wiper motor I just purchased a 1990 Red ZR1 #2599. Was referred to this site from another ZR owner at the CCDV. Just sent in my check yesterday should be a full member here soon. I followed the threads in tech data to wiper motor removal, but for some reason that's the only thread where nothing comes up when I click on it(may have been removed). Anyway, I just noticed the wipers only come up @ 1" then go back down, I assume (you know what they say about that) the motors are shot, or maybe if I get them out, I can take a part the motor and see what's wrong. Problem is the wiper arms don't come up far enough for me to get the one screw out. I don't want to just rip the arm up and make things worse. Any suggestions or tips on how to fix the wipers? Thx, Joe

06-18-2012	#3
vilant Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: PA Posts: 772	Re: Need help w/ wiper motor Thank you for your help guys. It is greatly appreciated. After I fix the wiper motors (already fixed the radio and headlight motors), she'll be 100% again. Thx

06-19-2012	#4
Z Factor Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: S. Florida Posts: 2,667	Re: Need help w/ wiper motor Hello Joe, and welcome to the forum. __________________ --- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt - April 23, 1910

06-20-2012	#5
WB9MCW Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: McHenry, Il. Posts: 6,607	Re: Need help w/ wiper motor Hi vilant and welcome to our ZOO! __________________ http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...9mcw/SIG-2.jpg http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o128/wb9mcw/vcm.gif "The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero, 55 BC " We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." - Abraham Lincoln

06-20-2012	#6
vilant Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: PA Posts: 772	Re: Need help w/ wiper motor Thanks, your car looks great. Will be posting pics of mine soon, when we get back from the shore.