Wiper Motor Restoration

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eds70dart

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Does anyone know of anyone who restores wiper motors back to their original look. Mine has the wires a little brittle and looks like its had some hard times.
 
There is a site on Ebay that reworks motors, he takes your core and replaces it with one already made up. If you want your own done he charges you for the core as well, I thought that was way too expensive.
Anyway, I just wondered if anybody had purchased motor from him before and how well that turned out.

I took my motor apart and now I can't figure out how to get it to park correctly. So I thought I would just replace it. Anybody have a service manual?
Thx. Kim.
 
Does anyone know of anyone who restores wiper motors back to their original look. Mine has the wires a little brittle and looks like its had some hard times.
Jules the wiperman, I'm not sure his contact info but he's all over MOPARTS.com..alot of people have used him, looks like a perfectionist!
 
There is a site on Ebay that reworks motors, he takes your core and replaces it with one already made up. If you want your own done he charges you for the core as well, I thought that was way too expensive.
Anyway, I just wondered if anybody had purchased motor from him before and how well that turned out.

I took my motor apart and now I can't figure out how to get it to park correctly. So I thought I would just replace it. Anybody have a service manual?
Thx. Kim.

seems that you may have put the plastic gear thingee in 180* out. i think they will go in 2 ways and if its wrong it wont park right. or the end play adjuster is too tight.
 
Anyone know what happened to Wiperman??? I just clicked on the link and it says that they are no longer accepting motors.

http://wiperman.homestead.com/

I had mine done on my 68 cuda this summer and he did excellent work. Hope nothing bad happened to him.
 
Hi guys, I had the wiperman web site booked into my favorites but when I was ready to send it off, he no longer was doing it. It's been a couple of months now that he's closed up. That's why I'm stuck on having a place to do it. I've tried and talked to many places but some say they don't want to touch it. The places I have found are YEAR-ONE and LAYTONS but they seem so expensive just to have it checked over or have it rewired, painted or plated. That might be my last resort though.............
 
I talked to a guy at Concours Creations named Gerald Schmit about restoring my wiper motor. The number is 386-846-1953. He is located in Orange City, Fla. He has an Ebay site as well.

He said he would rework my motor for $290.00 + shipping (standard reworking, NOT concours) if I included a money order with the motor. He wouldn't say how long it would take to rework and return, until he received the motor.

Just wondered if anybody had any experience with this place before.
Kim.
 
I talked to a guy at Concours Creations named Gerald Schmit about restoring my wiper motor. The number is 386-846-1953. He is located in Orange City, Fla. He has an Ebay site as well.

He said he would rework my motor for $290.00 + shipping (standard reworking, NOT concours) if I included a money order with the motor. He wouldn't say how long it would take to rework and return, until he received the motor.

Just wondered if anybody had any experience with this place before.
Kim.
Gerald did the wiper motor in my 67 dart. It turned out so good that I couldn't bring myself to put it in without refreshing the engine compartment. Now two years later and after a TOTAL tear down, interior, paint, suspension, engine rebuild, etc, the car is starting to go back together. And no. I'm not kidding. I blame him!
 
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This is the one done by Gerald in orange city.

QUOTE="eds70dart, post: 192309, member: 4600"]Does anyone know of anyone who restores wiper motors back to their original look. Mine has the wires a little brittle and looks like its had some hard times.[/QUOTE]
Does anyone know of anyone who restores wiper motors back to their original look. Mine has the wires a little brittle and looks like its had some hard times.
 
Another wiper motor restorer is Bruce Somer. I saw his stuff last weekend at the Mopar Spring Fling show in Van Nuys, CA. Looked very nice. He can be reached at 951-675-9551 9 AM - 9 PM PST or at www.ns1aar.com
 
I did my own. Cost me about $100 in materials and replating. When working on a budget and seeing how these things cost $350 to restore i had no choice, i had to figure it out. Bench tests great on low, high, park.

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Now i will have to either rebuild another prestolite Vspeed for the 69 notch i'm saving for my son, or a regular 2 speed with foot pump washer. I bought 2 prestolite V speeds out of the junkyard to rebuild into the one you see in prev pix. I have 2 more of em date coded for 1969, plus a box of parts from the rebuild of mine.

Mixing and matching parts from different years ya got to be careful and really look at stuff. The motor i rebuilt was date code correct for my 1967 notchback. The other motor was 1968. The big difference was the motor housing cylinder drum, and armature being about 1/4" longer in the 1968 wiper motor, and a few other differences. Probably running changes in design during production. Had i known this when searching the boneyard i would have tried to find 2 from the same year.

I ditched the cloth wrap covering on the wiring on the motor side and used the same color codes in shrink tubing. I hit the junkyard and hacked a section of wiring harness out of another late model car to get me the red, green, blue, and brown wiring for the connector, crimped on packard 56 male terminal ends that can be picked up at pico wiring products, or del city cheaply.

Kim at passion4mopars redid my cylinder plating, and was very helpful with my D.I.Y. rebuild tho i didnt bother her too much since she makes her living off rebuilding this stuff, not teaching other people to do it. Her website does have the correct wire testing hook ups to use when testing one of these out after rebuild.

My recommendation when rebuilding one of these and installing it, is to remove your windshield wiper arms from the pivots, and cycle the new motor on and back off to park. With the rebuild motor now having put the wiper linkage in its new park position then put the wiper arms back on. This is easier than farting around with the disc on the wiper motor to get them to park at the base of the windshield.
 
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