On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Mike Collum wrote:

> Matt Drew wrote:
>> Turned on the wipers.  No bueno...
>>
>> Is there an easy adjustment to correct the problem?
> .........................
> Never twist the wiper arms to their proper position after they've been
> put onto the shafts as this will only serve to cut and remove more of
> the soft metal in the arms.

Oooops!

Did this this am when scraping the windshield while the westy was
warming up. Noticed after awhile as I was scraping 2-3" of snow/ice
off the windshield, that the wipers were on but frozen to the
windshield!!!!! -broke the wipers free, & they started moving to 6"
below the windshield-not good-quickly moved the arm up so that they
were in correct position once again.

I wonder if I have any soft metal left in the arms????? They did work
properly while driving after that, but that couldn't have been good
for them?

YMMV,

Mr. BZ-remember to turn off wipers when I shut off vanagon next time!