When I opened the box today and saw the size of the electric wiper motor, I really started to wonder myself if there was enough room for both.
But if I have to make a choice – the radio will come first. It would be easier for sure to install the wiper mech while the radio is out, but not worth it if the radio won’t fit.
I will start searching previous threads first, but if anybody hears or knows anything on this topic in the meantime I would sure appreciate it if you could pass it on my way. Thanks for the tip Truckernix.
****Well, I did do some research and found a thread started by Weeds almost 10 years ago where this topic received a lot of discussion by Bolters I consider, compared to me, to be experts. In the final analysis I could not tell if the initiator (Weeds) ended up actually installing both successfully (his issue was a faulty design problem he had with the electric motor he purchased frm Classic Parts) but the thread ran something like:
1) Trucks 47- 53 could accept both the electric wiper conversion and an original radio even given the confined space, because the speaker is below the tuner and not above like later models.
2) There are different electric wiper motor manufacturers and one of them (not the one from Classic Parts that I have in hand) fits with less difficulty.
3) There is a vacuum wiper rebuilder (Wiperman.com) who apparently largely improves the performance of the old vacuum motors for about $100, that’s 10 years ago info.
That’s it for now, I’m going ahead for now, but I will pm some of the folks on this previous thread : don’t know if it’s ok to use their handles here, I remember them and I will get back or ask them to post their experience here for us.
Dale
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