My wipers stopped workin yesterday. I went and looked at the wiper motor today and noticed that it would work if the metal cylinder was pushed towards the firewall, its like its shorting out unless i touch the metal to the firewall, its strange. I cant figure it out, i pulled the motor, then plugged it in again and turned on teh switch and then nothing. Any ideas

 

Sounds like it needs a better ground.

 

I read that there is a brass strip on one of the screw holes that is the ground? The brass strip is broken where it meets the rubber isolater. I was missng one of the bolts that hold the motor to the firewall, the bottom one because the rubber isolater was missing when i was given the motor. Its been on there fore 4 years and the motor worked fine till now. I need to find a way to gorund this out Where on the motor body can i attach a ground wire to run to the firewall?

 

I got it grounded and installed it, went to turn on the wipers and all they do is go up an inch or 2 and then back down, the motor is making a ticking noises and it only works on high, no low or delay. Now i did not plug in the wires that go to the side of the plastic cover so that could be why i get no dealy, im not sure?

Ive taken the cover off and don't know which position the blue plastic piece is supposed to be pointing in and how do i know if the drive pin is set to park? If that is not set properly, would that be why they are only going up an inch?

 

I fixed it, thanks

 

does anyone know how this was fixed? i have the same problem - works on hi but not on the intermittent or lo settings - the motor just makes a click sound until it gets to hi - then it works. its been ****ting me off for a year now so would like to know how to fix it.... especially since its almost winter here!

 

someone must know how this was fixed. ive done a complete search of the boards with no luck.

some help would be greatly appreciated!

 

anybody??

 

Well i finally fixed my wipers so if anyone else has the same problem, its your motor. I checked all the wire voltages and even replaced the black cover with the circuitboard in it but no luck. I got a second hand motor and installed it today and now everything works .... first time ive seen the delay function work since ive had the car!

 

Bah! didnt fix it entirely. works sometimes on delay and low settings but more often it doesnt work. Im thinking it must be the switch