Many times your wiper arms get stripped at the pivot post because the
neighborhood and feral cats use your wipers to boost themselves to the top
of your van.
Most times it's just a matter of tightening the nut but you can only tighten
it so many times before the serrated post eats your soft metal arm away and
you're past the fix with just tightening.
This is when you need to use a piece of fresh cat gut as a bushing to
tighten up the fit of the serrated shaft into the enlarged hole in the wiper
arm.

Stan Wilder
High Performance Ceramic Coatings
www.engineceramics.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rob Campbell
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 12:45 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: windshield wiper help

Hello-

I'm pulled over at a service station off highway 94 about 30 miles east
of chicago.  Couldnt even see a town name because I had to panic and get
off the road.  Its raining pretty hard, and suddenly my left drivers
wiper flipped all the way over (hanging off the left side of vehicle)
and wouldnt return to position.  Now that I am pulled over, I can see
that it is quite easy to rotate the arm (the working passenger side has
a lot of resistance).  The wiper arm operates normally with no blade on
it, but with the blade in place, it just remains still.  It is as if a
clutch mechanism or tightening mechanism is broken.  I have the bentley
opened up, and it seems there is very little info in there.  This
service station doesnt seem to know anything about vws, but thye will
"take a look" in 30 mins.

In the meantime, if anyone can offer quick, private replies (i am only
on digest list since i am travelling), i would appreciate it.  I'm also
reachable at mantid@neuron.net via MSN messenger.

please send email to rob@phemp.com if you are familiar with this system
and can offer some advice.

Thanks

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