Wiper Engine
In this article, you Testament be trained diagnose, remove and install a defective windscreen wiper Engine. It is substantial To possess the correctly tools, so evaluation to be positive you keep the matters you devoir. One of the most determining matters you'll obligation is the identical practise and imitation wiper Engine as the one you are replacing.
Instructions
1. Good buy the wiper Engine. The wiper Engine Testament be either on the Chauffeur's side or passenger's side of the vehicle on the firewall or bulkhead of your vehicle. Machine manufacturers mount the wiper Engine on differential places on the firewall, however it is always a round blackish cylinder that you can manage in one artisan. It Testament be under or near one of the wiper blades under the grate.
2. Access the wiper Engine. Remove the wiper arms by beguiling your flathead screwdriver and removing the rubber stoppers on both wiper arms to dividend access to the mounting nuts. Remove nuts with a socket wrench using a 13 mm socket. Once nuts are off, you may corner to advantage a imperceptible compel to wiggle the wiper arms back and forth or side to side to lift and remove them from the tapered metal screw splines that clinch them calm firmly.
3. Remove the screening filter grate. It is the metal (or plastic or fiberglass) filter that prevents debris akin snow or dirt from clogging the HVAC intake vents. Accomplish this by using the pick belongings to remove the plastic involve pins that incorporate the screws that clutch the grating in settle. Convenience a Phillips or flathead screwdriver to remove the grating. You should forthwith hold access to the wiper Engine and should be able to peep it clearly.
4. Remove the wiper Engine from the bulkhead. Unplug the connectors important to the wiper Engine. Benefit the 10 mm socket to remove the upper bolt holding the wiper motor onto the bulkhead. The upper bolt holding the wiper Engine may and be holding the solenoid pack. Whether so, remove the solenoid pack from the upper bolt to unpaid it away of the bag.
Adjoining, remove the lower mounting bolt in the duplicate system. Whether there is another upper bolt, remove that. Provided there is another lower bolt, loosen and remove it very. The other lower bolt is generally a inappreciable deeper challenging to arrive so create a swivel time from your socket toolbox to receive to it.Once you have started each of the mounting bolts and are sure they are aligned, take your 1/4 inch socket wrench and the 10 mm socket and tighten each bolt down. Remember that if your solenoid pack was held to the firewall by any mounting bolts and washers, you must reattach the pack to the bolt and washers before you tighten anything down.Finally, you need to reattach the wiper arms and the grate that you removed to get at the wiper motor.
Diagnose the wiper motor. Unplug the connector going to the wiper motor to test whether there is power going through the plug. Connect the test light to the ground side (the negative post) of the battery. Turn the key on and turn the wipers on to any of the wiper selections.
6. Touch the plug connection marked with your selection with the test light to see if you're getting any power to that function. If the probe lights, you're getting power to that function. Do the same thing with the wipers turned on intermittent and low to test each function in turn.
If each function of the wipers is receiving power, you should next test to find out if the wiper motor is grounded to the firewall. To do this, switch your light probe clamp from the negative post of the car battery to the positive post. Then stick the probe into the wiper motor case. If the probe lights, then you know that the ground side of the circuit is good.
If one of the functions of the wiper motor is faulty, you will need to replace it with a new wiper motor or a used one from a car junkyard. If you choose to buy a used one from a junkyard, be sure to receive one from the same make and model year of your vehicle. If by accident you get a different one, it won't work in your vehicle.
7. Install your wiper motor. Make sure that you have all bolts sticking through the rubber mounting sleeves on the wiper motor before attempting to install the motor. The reason for the rubber is to dampen and quiet the vibration these motors create when turned on.
Insert the wiper motor in the same place as the old one by lining up the bolts to the holes and hand tightening each bolt on the motor first. Do not tighten down the bolts until you are sure that the bolts are all properly aligned into their holes.
The character of mounting bolts on a wiper Engine vary from 2 to 5 depending on the build and mannequin of your vehicle. You Testament entail to wiggle and jiggle the wiper motor out of its place from the bulkhead after you've removed all the bolts.5.
