Pranged wipers - Land Rovers Only

pavel · 12-01-2006, 12:00 PM

Was driving yesterday - stepped on the brakes and a glacier of snow & ice slid down the windshield and clobbered the wipers. Now the passenger side can be moved by hand (guess something is broken in there) and the driver's side is OK but the blade sweeps too far down and off the glass.
Looks not too difficult to take apart this weekend based on the Haynes manual. Any tips or tricks that anyone can recommend? Thanks in advance.

rmuller · 12-01-2006, 12:40 PM

They are just bolted on with 1 bolt each... just remove the bolt and reseat them and you should be good.

Banned · 12-01-2006, 12:47 PM

May take a wire brush to the splines, too. Just to clean the filings out.

pavel · 12-01-2006, 05:45 PM

Thanks guys, I'll attack it tomorrow.

pavel · 12-02-2006, 04:41 PM

Took the wiper arms off (the 13mm nuts were completely loose) and noticed that the female splines are no more.... luckily there seems to be a bit of male spline left on the shaft. What a feeble design - looks worse than the Lucas wiper mechanisms on the old Brit cars of the 50s 60s and 70s. Anyway, filed some new splines into the wiper arms and sinched it up tight. Seems to work again - hopefully this will hold.

Rovin4life · 12-02-2006, 04:49 PM

take them back off and put some loctite on. or else it will happen again.

12-01-2006, 12:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
pavel Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 433 Gallery: 0	Pranged wipers Was driving yesterday - stepped on the brakes and a glacier of snow & ice slid down the windshield and clobbered the wipers. Now the passenger side can be moved by hand (guess something is broken in there) and the driver's side is OK but the blade sweeps too far down and off the glass. Looks not too difficult to take apart this weekend based on the Haynes manual. Any tips or tricks that anyone can recommend? Thanks in advance.

12-01-2006, 12:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
rmuller Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern NJ Posts: 2,398 Gallery: 0	They are just bolted on with 1 bolt each... just remove the bolt and reseat them and you should be good. __________________ Ryan :: Off-Road/Accessories Moderator :: Gallery 2001 Discovery II \| 1994 Defender 90 #416

12-02-2006, 04:49 PM	#6 (permalink)
Rovin4life Former NAS LR TECH, Current AUS LR TECH Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: DOWN UNDER Posts: 1,740 Gallery: 0	take them back off and put some loctite on. or else it will happen again. __________________ I work on Rovers. Got a question just ask.

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12-01-2006, 12:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
Banned Banned Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4 Gallery: 0	May take a wire brush to the splines, too. Just to clean the filings out.

12-01-2006, 05:45 PM	#4 (permalink)
pavel Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 433 Gallery: 0	Thanks guys, I'll attack it tomorrow.

12-02-2006, 04:41 PM	#5 (permalink)
pavel Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 433 Gallery: 0	Took the wiper arms off (the 13mm nuts were completely loose) and noticed that the female splines are no more.... luckily there seems to be a bit of male spline left on the shaft. What a feeble design - looks worse than the Lucas wiper mechanisms on the old Brit cars of the 50s 60s and 70s. Anyway, filed some new splines into the wiper arms and sinched it up tight. Seems to work again - hopefully this will hold.

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