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Richter12x2
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It's been a long time, and still struggling through trying to make this thing go. Now the wiper motor has gone out again, the armature is a crispy and the transformer is fried shorted, so it resisted a rebuild (until or unless someone can tell me what size magnet wire that is, when it gets so small it's impossible to measure accurately with a micrometer). This was likely due to the wiper motors being wired backwards, and voltage being wired to the switch instead of ground.
I had just about resigned myself to retrofitting a later model motor, or even one of the little hotrod direct mount wiper motor posts, but then I found someone selling a New Old Stock wiper motor for a Jaguar on eBay that looked suspiciously correct.
Just received it, and it's still in the plastic, from 1966. What I thought was a silica packet was actually a small pack of parts (the nuts and replacement rubber mounts) and a set of instructions from half a century ago. So I thought I'd share:
Unfortunately, even wired as instructed, it doesn't want to do anything. I've ohmed the armature windings, and opposite sides are at roughly one ohm. The brushes are correct, the wires have continuity to the post. I can turn the armature by hand and it turns the whole assembly. However it's full of thick black grease, and figure it's probably too thick for the motor to move, so I'll be cleaning it out today, and fingers crossed, have a new wiper motor, so we can pass inspection once the world opens up and is reasonably safe again (and the car drives more than a block without dying).
It's been a long time, and still struggling through trying to make this thing go. Now the wiper motor has gone out again, the armature is a crispy and the transformer is fried shorted, so it resisted a rebuild (until or unless someone can tell me what size magnet wire that is, when it gets so small it's impossible to measure accurately with a micrometer). This was likely due to the wiper motors being wired backwards, and voltage being wired to the switch instead of ground.
I had just about resigned myself to retrofitting a later model motor, or even one of the little hotrod direct mount wiper motor posts, but then I found someone selling a New Old Stock wiper motor for a Jaguar on eBay that looked suspiciously correct.
Just received it, and it's still in the plastic, from 1966. What I thought was a silica packet was actually a small pack of parts (the nuts and replacement rubber mounts) and a set of instructions from half a century ago. So I thought I'd share:
Unfortunately, even wired as instructed, it doesn't want to do anything. I've ohmed the armature windings, and opposite sides are at roughly one ohm. The brushes are correct, the wires have continuity to the post. I can turn the armature by hand and it turns the whole assembly. However it's full of thick black grease, and figure it's probably too thick for the motor to move, so I'll be cleaning it out today, and fingers crossed, have a new wiper motor, so we can pass inspection once the world opens up and is reasonably safe again (and the car drives more than a block without dying).
