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chris57

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At rest, are the wipers supposed to lay pointing right like cars in the USA? Or are they supposed to lay pointing left because of the British steering convention? I have found pics on line both ways.
 
as they sell the arm's LHD or RHD and my RHD 66 they park[rest] pointing right, so LHD should park left I guess
Russ
 
Lhd parks left.
 
I believe there’s a 180 switch on the back of the motor. You can set it for LHD or RHD.
 
Paul McGuffin said:
I believe there’s a 180 switch on the back of the motor. You can set it for LHD or RHD.
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There is a cover on the gear case of the wiper motor that has the parking contacts attached. Turn the cover and you can change where the wipers park.

Kurt.
 
Well, you might have thought it was a stupid question but it was sure one I'd never even thought of, and was fascinated that there was an answer. And I've apparently done something backwards on our dune buggy as they lie right - and there's a lot of photos with the wiper system installed 'correctly' and 'backwards'. Neat to know! Doug
 
British Cars. Their own "convention", probably copied by many others.
Our US vehicles with solid windscreen and electric wipers park right.
My US vehicles with vacuum wipers park...down. Left side to left, right side to right. That's the two with split windscreen. The one piece wind screen park right, but the pickup is and always has been LHD, so go figure.

Now....on my LBC....not a permag motor, field wound, with an offset cam...park right for RHD, left for LHD.
Mine is RHD, the wiper motor was a single speed (we think is was from a) Morris.
Find a proper motor (two of them to make one). Get it in, reconfigure wiring back to stock for two speed...then find you have to remove the park contact...flip it around and re-install...then, since they reverse when shut off to park the blade close to the cowl, you had to reverse the field to get it to run the right way and park low instead of high.
See how easy you have it?
 
The lead to the wiper motor is always hot and your switch provides the ground as does the parking contact. Turn off the switch and the motor continues to run till the parking contact no longer makes contact on the gear and the motor stops. Pretty simple if you know what you are looking for.

Kurt.
 
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