Wiper Motor Restoration

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.