{"id":1114,"date":"2012-11-04T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2012-11-04T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:02:53","slug":"wiper-motors-take-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2012\/11\/04\/wiper-motors-take-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiper Motors, Take 2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening after the sun went down, I cracked the cowl on Peer Pressure to start troubleshooting the wiper issue. I ran the engine up for about ten minutes in the afternoon when I got back from Harbor Freight; in the bag was a battery charger and a test light (along with an oil catchpan and an air fitting for my compressor).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8156020634\/\" title=\"Wiper Motor diagnosis by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8058\/8156020634_34217edfc9.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Wiper Motor diagnosis\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking over the connector to the motor, I put the test light on it with the key at ACC and the wiper knob on low. After I found a consistent ground, the hot wires tested good. Puzzling. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8156021146\/\" title=\"Power to the conector by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7268\/8156021146_fb905f5b0b.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Power to the conector\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I put my tester on it and got power in an acceptable range. More puzzling; it was looking like the motor was bad. I peeked under the cowl to size up the bolt positions, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idiotking\/8155990235\/\" title=\"Linkage unbound by idiot king, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7123\/8155990235_e49c327f49.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Linkage unbound\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;realized the wiper arm was sitting on the bottom of the inner cowl. Which meant it wasn&#8217;t connected at all. I reached in and verified it was completely loose. I cleaned the contacts in the connector with some sandpaper, hooked it back up, got back in the truck and turned the wipers on low. Immediately I heard the whirring of the motor. I&#8217;d never checked it with the engine off, so I celebrated with a smack to my own forehead.<\/p>\n<p>Now the problem is getting the motor off the mount so that I can access the arm linkage enough to slide a spare clip on the housing. As I was coaxing the first of three bolts off the ladies called me in to dinner, so I tightened everything back up (the forecast is for 0% rain for the next couple of days), hauled all the tools inside, and called it a night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening after the sun went down, I cracked the cowl on Peer Pressure to start troubleshooting the wiper issue. I ran the engine up for about ten minutes in the afternoon when I got back from Harbor Freight; in the bag was a battery charger and a test light (along with an oil catchpan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress","category-repairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-hY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}