Work in progress :- Wipers +Brakes

 Easy fix as the connection had come off the wiper motor 

Plug just hanging 

Now tie wrapped on .

not pretty but effective 

When my car went to GD to have new Diff fitted under warranty last November  Andy said that the brake bias wants changing 1/2 a turn as the back brakes are not doing enough work .

Easy fix I though but could not remember which way the brake cyls were and looking back at my blog i never mentioned it ( dam ) 

After a strip down of the wheel cover I could see the piston sizes and then realized that the back piston is in the middle .

Turned in 1/2 a turn 

Wipers

 Easy job i thought just fit the wipers  however they needed some fettling to make them follow the contour of the windscreen 

First job was to confirm that the wipers still parked the right way ( just in case ) and they did 

they are also adjustable but mine did not adjust far enough so had to cut off 25m and bend in the vice 

looks  good  

just need to bend the tab over 

Powering up ( and down again)

 Time to power up 

so connected the dash up put all the fuses in and connected the battery no bang or smoke which is a good start .

first checks were

Heater --only works on one speed

Side lights -- all work 

Head lights - no dip beam  no full beam  but flash works 

Wipers -no on first speed then on second works but head lights come on !!! 

no point carrying on so enough for today out with wiring diagram.

Dash Wiring Stalks

 Final part of the wiring quite easy once i had marked cables and photocopied the supplyed drawing to make it bigger for old eyes !

Son in law came round so gave him the job 

All done thanks Adam 

Decided to alter the wiring slightly as not having intermittent wiper so moed the wiring so

 intermittent is now speed 1 and speed 1 is now speed 2 ,i also had to link speed 2 to speed 1 other wise when i went to speed 2 the wiper would stop .

link wire added 

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.