The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Interiors wiper vac question

not sure if this is the right section to post this but here goes when reading the manual on installing the wiper vac for the wiper it says to install it vertical with the wipers up is this nessasary?

No, they guy's with the six figure salaries who wrote that book just liked messing with you...

CASO, I suspect the guys writing the manuals in the vacuum wiper era were likely 4 figure salary types

misfit - need a year to start, vacuum wipers cover a lot of different series - for the AD series, the initial placement of the wiper arms with relation to the wiper motor [shaft] has to do with finding the correct position for full sweep without banging either side or going backwards .... if you don't have the engine functional and can't do the adjustment, don't worry about it, but remember before you do use them that they might sweep down across your new paint

Bill

i will just follow the steps of adjustment and its a 1951 chevy 3100. just want to know why they would want it setup upwards. usually to set up i've always full strided it linkage off then installed linkage the install linkage wiper off of glass and the tested to make sure the swipe was correct and then put on glass and adjust as nessasary. but then again thats usually on modern rigs. and idiots makin 6 figures dont know how to fix anything and engineers never fix (and they figure everything out when its new and ez to fix), work as a mechanic for a livin n see how off they are.

Four or six figures aside, it seems they liked messing woith mechanics 50 years down the road, they have sure stumped me a time or two! LOL

the manual procedures are just basic assembly steps, safest for dealer liability, not necessarily the only way to do it - with electric wipers I ordinarily run the motor with no arms on to get the shaft to the park position and go from there - with some individual vacuum wipers it is possible to get the motors reversed side to side, so the sweep would be backwards

Bill