Wiper arm

[Helirich]

I'm on a trip. My wife and I are both sick and I just want to get home. Wouldn't you know it, it's pouring own rain and my wiper decides not to work. The pax side woks, but the driver's won't keep up. Of course, they hit each other. Is there not splines to locate them? Does this mean mine are stripped out? I guess if I can't fix it now, I will "rain-x" the windshield real good.

Any help would be appreciated.

[MrChocky]

I'm on a trip. My wife and I are both sick and I just want to get home. Wouldn't you know it, it's pouring own rain and my wiper decides not to work. The pax side woks, but the driver's won't keep up. Of course, they hit each other. Is there not splines to locate them? Does this mean mine are stripped out? I guess if I can't fix it now, I will "rain-x" the windshield real good.

Any help would be appreciated.

Yes, there are splines, but the nut also needs to be tightened enough to hold it down correctly. You could always just unbolt and remove it for now.

[CFI]

I agree, the nut is probably not tight enough.

[dn010]

The splines on the arms (which I believe are aluminum) can wear out and if you tighten the nut too much trying to get them to work, you’ll pinch the whole post/mechanism and it won’t work at all. Take it apart and see what it looks like and you can always swap passenger/driver sides.

[Helirich]

I tightened the nut, but it didn't go very far. It's bright sun today, so no test. Of course, the AC is not working great. We're so sick, we quit already.

[Josh]

I tightened the nut, but it didn't go very far. It's bright sun today, so no test. Of course, the AC is not working great. We're so sick, we quit already.

Maybe you can craft a titanium wiper arm that will never fail. At least you must have some sort of ingenious solution to get you out of this hot, sick, low visibility conundrum.

[dn010]

Maybe you can craft a titanium wiper arm that will never fail. At least you must have some sort of ingenious solution to get you out of this hot, sick, low visibility conundrum.

:hysterical:

This made my day.

[Helirich]

:hysterical:

This made my day.

Yea, isn't it great how josh can delight in the misfortune of others?

[Josh]

Yea, isn't it great how josh can delight in the misfortune of others?

If you PM me your address i can mail you a snickers.

[Helirich]

So tightening the nut seems to have fixed the wiper. I drove in rain today and it worked without issue. I do notice the wipers move kind of "rachity". I bought new blades awhile back and maybe they are too sticky. Does anybody else notice this?

[David T]

If there is wax on the glass it can make them "ratchety". Clean the glass with glass cleaner and then go over it with alcohol. You could finish with RainX. Could also be the wiper blades.