Removign Wiper Blades Etc

[Mauser]

Please can someone explain how to remove the sodden wiper arms from the splines ?. Mine looked well seized and even after spraying releasing oil they won't budge....sob. Cannot lever up as the silly plastic cover will break. My wipers are stuttering at times and I wanted to remove and grease, maybe someone could explain these 3 bolts to me as I can see 1 either end holding the pivot arms to the bulk head and 1 holding the arms to the motor spline, but this topic mentions a third bolt holding the motor on ?, I can only see a 8mm single bolt holding what appears to be the entire mounting bracket for the wiper assembly, after taking this out it still feels solid.

Anyway biggest problem is removing the arms, am I faced with making an extractor to pull these buggers off ?.

Rather frustrated at the moment as this is the second time I have tackled this project and failed.

Cheers Simon

 

PS 2.3 1999 ghia :(

[Mauser]

OK since no one knows how to remove the arms, I made a little extraction tool this morning to do the job. Worked like a charm and cracked the arm from the sline.

Took half a can of gas to remove the nearside pivot as this was terribly seized. Cleaned and greased and re-assembled and now the wipers fly.

Here's a picture of my home made tool

http://www.mortal-souls.com/mauser/tool.jpg

Simon

[seatkid]

Nice tool...

[Guest vr6galaxy]

very nice tool :D they must have been well and truely welded in place if thats what it took to remove the wiper arms from the shafts!

[Guest marcusheawood]

Sodden...Arm...Oil...Sob...Grease...Mounting...Solid...Bugger...Charm...Cracked...Tool...Shafts? :D

 

Can you lot please come out of the closet! :D

[Mauser]

Biggest problem was breaking the joint :D, couldn't start using a lever as nowt to lever off :D.

Welding isn't great but it didn't fall apart and wasn't to bad for first attempt after a quick look at 7.58 as I arrived at work....8.45 was ready to use :D. Don't think there is a high demand for this tool so I won't be able to quit work on live on the royalties :D.

Anyway only posted really incase anyone else wants to make one after suffering the same problem, you can see the corrosion from the reaction of steel + alloy by the threads, good way to clean bearings out was to stuff with wire wool then use a smaller drill somewhere around 8mm and then as you enter the drill into the wire wool it causes the whole lot to spin and polish the inside really well.

Hopefully my fix will last another 100k miles.

Regards Simon