Nice Picture!
The local and feral cats have been dragging my wipers down for eight
years.
The fist route is to just wire brush the old aluminum out of the splines
and tighten down the arms in normal fashion.
The next route of repair is to cut a thin sliver of aluminum drink can
and make a tiny ring type bushing that fills the dead space that has been
eaten away. I'm thinking thin wall aluminum hobby tubing might be some
better.
These two fixes have worked for me and I'm looking forward to my next
encounter with ten pound cats climbing on my van and boosting themselves
to the luggage rack on my wiper arms.
This is a common problem with Vanagon wiper arms, be ready to tighten
them often.
The last resort of course is to buy new arms.

Stan Wilder

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:23:41 -0700 Gnarlodious
<gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET> writes:
> The recent 4 feet of WET snow trashed my windshield wiper splines. Is
> there
> a way to fix them? Some steel insert to help grab metal?
>
> See photo:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~joyforlife/Pages/Blizzard7.html
>
>

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