Wiper blade direction change

Have a question that might seem strange don't know if anybody ever ran into this before....Picked up a car that used to have opposite moving wipers. /\ PO did something to update them modern motors or something //. Problem is how the window is styled only one wiper will work and fit properly the drivers side in this matter but the p***enger side won't work properly and for the window. Is there a way to reverse the polarity or something to make the p***enger side go in the opposite direction / instead of this way\? So that they can function in the way they were meant to in 1955

 

I did this on my 54 Chevy: I had a 1980 Monte Carlo as a donor car that I used everything I could off, to build up the 54, which was missing most details. I knew the wipers never worked well in 54 (vacuum), so I adapter the Monte motor, and linkage to the 54's wiper stands and arms.
I set up the motor where it wouldn't interfere with anything under the dash (yeah, I took it off the firewall). Then made a linkage rod to go up to the cowl area. There I built a bellcrank, with an arm that extended both above and below the pivot point, and one to connect to the motor. From there, I used the Monte linkage arms, one above, one below, to go the the wipers, so they worked in opposite directions. The only time consuming part was getting the distance fromt the pivot correct, so the wipers had full sweep.
It worked well for me for 5-6 years, until I sold the car, and the next owner didn't have any problems for the 5-6 years I kept in touch with him.

 

Did the PO change the position of the spindle of the p***enger-side wiper arm? Usually "clap-hands" wipers have their spindles symmetrical and near the outer edges of the car. "Parallel" wipers will have one spindle near the edge and one near the middle of the car, often with both on the same side of the car because the arms and blades overlap. So, the first thing to do is to make sure the p***enger-side spindle is where you want it.

If that is sorted out the fix could be as simple as rotating the crank on the bottom end of the arm spindle 180°. Most often the back-and-forth action of the wipers simply comes from the crank on the arm being substantially longer than the crank on the motor: it doesn't really matter which direction the motor is running.

In some systems (like my Morris) the motor drives one arm (in my case by a push-pull cable) and that arm drives the other arm through a linkage. In such cases the cranks on the arms should point in the same direction for parallel action and 180° apart for "clap-hands" action.

By the way, despite the reputation of Lucas electrics I've had no trouble at all with the wiper motor in the Morris. It's a simple design, easy to rebuild, easy to adjust, even possible to convert single-speed motors to two-speed, and the cable action frees up lots of installation options. Some types are available new and others reconditioned:

 

Would help if we knew which '55 it is? If it's a GM '55, then it sounds like he got one cable installed wrong, which will cause the problem you have. Need to pull the offending wiper transmission, and cross the cable so it reverses direction.

 

if a electric full rotating motor is used, and not directional ( move clockwise approx. 120 degrees, then counter clockwise) then both wiperblades doing as yours... same direction of the wipers when using original setup. When done as others says here, an full rotating motor with a wiperarm to one of the wiper bellcranks, then it would also make both go same direction.....

 

It's a 55 Ford Sedan Delivery I actually owned it for a couple weeks last August which is how I know about the wiper issue. I never got around to doing anything with it. I do know and it's funny that Chopolds mentioned Monte Carlo. Because that is what was used as a donor for this car. I remember that they were underneath the cowl and not under the dash and from checking around they were originally vacuum, same as on my 41 Ford and vacuum does not work well at all especially at a light. I will know more when I pick up the car tommorow. When I owned it I had wiper blade installed. Some pretty good ideas you guys have there. I really appreciate it I knew this would be the best place to ask.

 

Got the Sedan Delivery home tonight the last hundred miles was on a flatbed though. Must have hot something and blew a belt out of the tire and got a flat

 

Been workin on the sedan delivery the motor has 4 wires White red black and blue. I have found that the feed wire is the white one the date stamp on it is Jan 1976. It wasn't wired at all so I have the original switch with 8 positions no plug. Needless to say Im a little confused. I think the motor grounds itself to its pointing point because it touched the white to the white and got the wiper motor working. Problem was is the grommets are weak and it wobbled unbeknownst to me and wrapped up the wires that were under the dash. I had to fix all that wiring put it back up still had some wobble and it dies when it wobbled too much it lost power so I grabbed the motor by hand to push it into place and it sent some arcs into me. One thing about working on old cars is you have to discover what was in another's head and reverse that to fix things all the while figuring out what parts they used to do it. Anybody have any ideas?