Backup lights, wipers, switch

Matthon,

I fixed my wiper issue similar to yours so I am throwing this at ya.

My wipers were slow and causing circuit breaker to reset, checked my backup lamps and they were not working and they used too. I could hear the clicking in the switch and I thought the switch was bad / possibly my wiper motor which sucks cause I took it apart last year.

Switch checked out so I checked the motor with jumper wires with harness unplugged, no park and would spin on low and high... ****

Taking it out was easier than the rant I had going... Take the nut off of the shaft at wiper linkage, 3 nuts from the front, first remove neg batt cable.

I disassemble and seemed like a lot of grease I put in last time so cleaned most of that up, took the motor cover off and looked close at the brushes, they barely made contact:


which I think this is not good, pull the windings part way out and take the brushed out of the holder and I used a round file to cut a better pattern if you will. Then put the brushed back in and slide armature back down carefully.

Next I took a piece of #1200 grit sand paper 1/4" wide maybe 6" long and slid it under the brush's (one at a time) and did a shoe shine like motion with the sandpaper to to let the sandpaper seat the brush onto the armature. (hope that makes sense) after both sides were seated I turned over the paper and did cleaned up the armature with the sandpaper, just spun the armature with my fingers and held the sandpaper on it.

Put it back together and I cant F***ing believe how good my wipers work:blob::blob:

They park, low is great, high is great, reverse lights work and no circuit breaker issue.

I am so friggin happy :blob::blob:

Nothing to loose to give it a try