Hello everyone! The winter blues got me thinking about my 57 Fairlane and how I'd like to make it better to drive during bad weather. I was wondering if there is any wiper mechanism kit or a donor to get rid of the pulley and cable system. My car only has one wiper transmission and all the cables and pulleys are gone. They don't reproduce them. I know you can get a conversion kit for a tri5 chev. Thoughts? Ideas?
Most of us know a 55 chevy electric motor bolts right in place, that's the easy part. The stock cable system is a Royal Disaster! Ford got it together in 1958 and did away with it and went with a motor under the dash where it belongs and two hard metal arms to operate the transmission towers. I have never seen an aftermarket drop in system for the 57 model. Find yourself a 58 parts car and do an upgrade.
The '58 ***emblyshould swap in., if you can find that one.It upgrades to a solid-arm type wiper-transmission. Not sure if the'59 would. work.
Hmm..I do know of a 58 that's getting parted out soon. I wonder if they would all bolt right in or if there's some fabbing that would need done.
From what I understand there is some fabrication work involved as all the mechanism is under the dash rather than under the cowl. If your cable system is still intact I would try and get it working instead and as mentioned the tri-5 Chevy electric motor is a straight bolt on.
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