Not likely to be the wiper motor in my experience .
( altho I do have one out of an 85 I'd sell )

I don't think you have to remove the whole dash to replace the wiper
motor and linkages ..
not certain ...but I did remove that part from said 85 without removing
the dash or breaking things.

Grounds ..
control unit ..
switch ...

in that order.

Scott

On 05/16/2016 03:42 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
>    84 tin top.  I am finishing up the revival of my Vanagon after it sat for
> the winter with a sore transmission and the high speed of the wipers
> doesn't work.   The wipers behave normally on all the other functions of
> the column stalk wiper switch, but the wipers just plug along at low speed
> when I switch them to high....Is there something I should look at that
> might save me pulling the dash and checking the motor etc?
>
>     FWIW....I have repeatedly tried to use the archives of the Vanagon list
> with no success, ever.   I've been using Google search instead.   Is there
> a secret decoder ring I must have to make the archive search work, or am I
> just stupid? (wait, don't answer the second question....)
>
> Don Hanson
>