I was working on figuring out a low buck wiper setup for my 49 Chevy truck http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3516434#post3516434 and came up with a simple solution. I worked on my wiper system yesterday and it works great! I'll post pics shortly and show everyone how a Blazer rear hatch wiper motor works great! I designed the whole setup with simplicity in mind and keeping it easy to work on. I may offer to sell the brackets (2 and they would both be laser cut and pre-bent w/holes) if I can keep the price low enough. Anybody interested? PM me!
Count me in. The price for the aftermarket stuff is a little pricey for me during these economic times.
Post up on the AD Truckers Social Group and I'm sure you'll get some response. I'm VERY interested. You willing to put up drawings or just finished brackets?
Where's the Pics? I picked up a blazer rear wiper motor yesterday with plans on using it in my 50 Chevy.
Yeah, Thommyknocker did an awesome post on this....and he did it for under 20 bucks or so, I think. Here's the link Thommyknocker's Cheap Arse Wiper Project Hopefully it'll work for your truck. I'm going to do it when I get the time.
WIPERS!!!!!! Finally, for those of you who have patiently waited I'm finally going to give you what you asked for! I'll try to install it this weekend and show you what I did. Here's a basic S-10 Blazer rear window wiper motor. Here's the basic, bare metal bracket. It's .125" cold rolled flat stock that's been laser cut and bent. Here it is put together . I need to finish fabbing the linkage piece that mounts to the motor. I'm still not sure what the trick is to making the high and low speed work on this thing either. Here's the pivot bracket and it welded to the locking collar I tacked the bracket onto the collar with my MIG welder. On the ones that go out, they will be TIG'd. Here it is on the motor. PM me for any questions.
Wow, what a frustrating day! When I first started working on the wiper design back in April, I figured the twist in my design was too thin of steel on my bracket. When I had my friend cut it out for me, I had him make it the way I originally designed and make it without the side reliefs to bolt a possible brace to. Well I had to go with the latter! I bolted up the one in the upper pics and it put just enough twist (those little motors are really torquey!) that I realized that heavier bracket wasn't going to work either. Thank goodness I'd had him make the other bracket too. So I bolted it up and used an existing hole in the cowl vent lever brace with a piece of 1/2" steel. Here it is bolted up. Don't laugh at the bolt length on the pivot link, I had to figure out how to get the pass. side to not hit cowl vent (notice hinge in background)! I'm so frustrated with how much slack/movement is in the original system and how tough it is to make them be perfect! You could just bolt it on and make it close, but I don't want close I want dead nut! I need to measure the bolt length and make that right and double check everything again! Sheesh
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