The Bears, Wolves, and Coyotes take care of any feral cats here.

We just have to deal with wiper arms that  strip when you turn on the wipers and there is too much snow or ice on the windshield.

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Date: Friday, October 8, 2004 11:27 am
Subject: Re: windshield wiper help

> 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 [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
> eastof 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
> bentleyopened 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
> alsoreachable at mantid@neuron.net via MSN messenger.
>
> please send email to rob@phemp.com if you are familiar with this
> systemand can offer some advice.
>
> Thanks
>
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