Wipers

Tackling the wiper mounts today ,The outer edge of the rubber washers were marked at 415 mm from the windscreen stay and 5 mm from the screen rubber and the eliptical spindle holes were marked on to masking tape using the inside of the rubber washer as a guide. The centres of the holes were established and marked only to find that they were marked already by GD .Oh well at least I was right with my markings . I then checked that the distance between the holes was the same as the assembled wiper mechanism and it was within  2 mm which I figured I could lose by bending the tubing to follow the curve of the body



All set to drill my baby  

 Drilled the holes with a small drill first as expecting it to bite which it did
after that I drilled  the rest of the holes with the drill going backwards ( always amazes me how that still cuts )
once I had got to 13mm I set to with a file for the final touches .

Once  the hole right the GD manual says that the spacer has to be cut down measured this and decided it was 5mm to long .

original spacer

Quick drive to one of Steve's mates and a 30minute lathe job later the spacer was right .

5mm shorter

Fitting it all was a lot more fiddly than I guessed it would be due to weight of the motor so took the motor off and just fitted the tubes with the idea of threading the motor though later.

What a pose

That all went well  and all lined up very well slid the motor cable up though the tubes and turned the wiper spindles to feed the cable though .all went easy .secured the motor with the bracket and after reading the manual noticed I should have put a piece of rubber between the motor and frame (did wonder what that strange bit of rubber was )

fitted and happy

motor secured (with the rubber)
 

 

The park position of the motor will need to be checked once they run as the wipers should park on the drivers side (which may need to be altered later .

 

another job off he list.