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Wipers acting weird

Postby cmann250 » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:36 pm

Symptoms are: the wipers run at two speeds, medium and warp speed (max), they return home, but they bump themselves back up an inch or so after they return home. They do this everytime, they don't just stop where they are.

It wouldn't bother me except for when the rain is light, the wipers screech across the glass.

I've searched here and elsewhere and turned up nothing definative. I popped apart the intermittent control box and nothing had gotten hot like some boxes have.

Anyone had this happen to them?

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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby Gots_a_sol » Tue Oct 18, 2011 2:13 pm

I believe the coming back up an inch after the park location is the arm on the wiper motor is not splined in the correct location.
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby manyholes » Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:06 pm

change the intermitent box, mine did that after i fried the charging system, box out of the wreckers fixed it
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby cmann250 » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:04 pm

[quote="Gots_a_sol"]I believe the coming back up an inch after the park location is the arm on the wiper motor is not splined in the correct location.
If i move them down, won't the arms dip beyond the park posistion and come back to the park posistion?

Thanks Many, I'll just add it to the many parts i need at the junk yard :lol:
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby ellis93 » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:40 pm

Gots_a_sol wrote:I believe the coming back up an inch after the park location is the arm on the wiper motor is not splined in the correct location.


X2. Simple as loosening the nut,pry off the arm, turn the motor to on then off so it will go to park again, then position your wipers were you want them and bolt up the linkage to the motor.
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby PToombs » Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:56 pm

It doesn't work that way. The motor has 2 flats on the shaft, or at least mine did. Kinda hard to move it 1 notch that way.
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby dazedandconfused » Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:00 pm

PToombs wrote:It doesn't work that way. The motor has 2 flats on the shaft, or at least mine did. Kinda hard to move it 1 notch that way.


Mines the same way. You can pull the wiper arms off and try to move them down where you want them.
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby ellis93 » Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:06 pm

Really? I could have sworn when I did my bushings that mine was a splined,tappered shaft. Maybe I'm confused :roll:
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby Gots_a_sol » Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:11 pm

I'm pretty sure mine did not have a fat spline as I spent a couple of minutes trying to get the stupid thing splined in the right spot when I replaced all my bushings.
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby cmann250 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:00 am

Thanks for the help guys.

To further complicate things, when i turned the wipers off this morning, they went to park and stayed there. I turned them off at about full travel (furthest from park), if that could make a difference.

So the wipers aren't only screwed up, they are inconsistent too. This is so strange, it doesn't even piss me off lol
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby Hansen01 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:11 am

lol i bet its the wiper deal under the dash, mine do this to, i was gonna replace it, but its working fine now :roll: lol
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby dazedandconfused » Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:36 am

Our 95 chevy plow truck did that and it was the wiper motor. You never knew what it was going to do when you turned the wipers on.
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby cmann250 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:47 am

When i got the truck, the wipers worked with the same symptoms as the do now. Every blue moon (and when the planets align), the wipers work at the right speeds. And that's when i hold the plug a certain way in the box, but they never work right on their own
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby wonderbread » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:59 am

Well here is a weird one you push the washer fluid button and the blower motor comes on explain that I need to know please.
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Re: Wipers acting weird

Postby ellis93 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:19 pm

That's simple "D O D G E" :lol:

Seriously I've got nothing but maybe its back feeding a ground circuit. Do you have a interior wiring diagram?
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