Has anyone done a wiper motor conversion on a 1950 chevy before? I have a fleetline and I am not happy with the vacuum line wipers. Kinda scary when it's raining particularly hard. I was looking into doing a full conversion of electric seeing that car is updated to 12v. I don't have a radio anyway so I am not concerned with that. My concerns are do I just need the motor or will I have to purchase wiper transmissions too? Is there a place I could get a motor for cheaper than 200 bucks? What have you guys done? I'm running rainx on my windshield already haha.
I just put in an electric kit from Walton fab, easy job and works great. Uses existing wiper transmissions, was just a bit over $200.
Thanks for the response man. That's what I thought but I wanted to make sure. Yeah everywhere I've looked for one looks like it's gonna be just a bit over 200. I wasn't sure if there was another one that would work for the car. The one I put in my 65 chevy van was only 75 bucks.
you could have a go yourself, just go to a wreckers and find a couple, I did it a long time ago by welding the original car half of the drive arm to the drive shaft side of the replacement motor (keeping the overall length of the original arm, important bit!). Try and adapt the new motor to the mount of the old. It gave me two speed electric instead of one speed vac. on a '60 Holden
Did this on my wife,s 54. Just removed the vacuum motor thingy, made up a bracket and fitted an electric motor in its place with a bit of flat plate welded to the motor spindle which engaged with the original wiper set up , worked a treat.cost me around $50 .
I used one from the rear of a foreign hatch or SUV as these work left to right rather the the fronts that go the full circle. Just gabbed a mount and used the original wiper box arm and linkage . Near to free .
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