windshield wipers flying up and away

Neal

Neal

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The wiper arms on my '35 lift up and over the roof when driving and have a wind. I lost one of the arms this past weekend.

How do you keep the wipers on the glass or do you run without them? I am tempted to go without but I like the looks of them on.

Thanks.

Neal
 
I had the same problem with my 37 wiper and was able to bend arm to glass a little more and it now stays put.Try tweaking it a bit.
 
This is a weak spot the parts Gurus should address, I used a short little arm from speedway, anodized silver, its not lovely but it works, I then modified a good Anco blade assembly to be held with ss aircraft hardware, may not be period Kosher but its not jumping ship on me.
 
Neal, I have electric, cable driven wipers on my '36 p/u and they were moving up on the cab at speed. I built a little tab stop with a rubber bumper to stop the over rotation. Not very noticeable and works like a charm.
 
I had the same problem with the arms on my 39. I tried most of the suppliers arms and at last Mighty Wipers (I think) worked pretty good. Some vendor needs to fix this problem!!
 
This is what i do on customers' cars: generally there is a leading and a lagging wiper and a slight overlap. On the lagging wiper (usually the passenger side, it is the one closest to the edge of the roof) i pop the arm and securing nut off the wiper, i take a small piece of stainless - drilled to go over the wiper drive assemble - and bend a lip on the right side. This piece of stainless is small, 1 1/4 X 2 at most, part of it will lay on the roof, the flange you bent will stick up enough to act as a stop for the blade. Trim it down to smallest size possible and still function, polish it and reassemble with the nut holding it tight to the roof and rotated so that the arm will come to a stop against it when the wipers go 'off', the other wiper (leading wiper) will rest against the lagging wiper. The small piece of stainless will look right at home, can't really see it when the wiper is at 'rest'. If you can't understand my rambling pm me and i'll go get a pic of one. Maybe i should make and sell them? Later, oj
 
I had the same problem with my '35. To solve the problem I made a simple stop. It is nothing more than a 1/4" strip of steel. I drilled a 1/4" hole for the bracket mount slides over the wiper shaft and is held in place by the shaft nut. Another small "L- shaped" bracket is pop riveted to the strip to act as the "stop." The "stop" has a chunk of rubber tubing slipped over to deaden any rubbing noise. As simple as it is I can now drive 45-50 mph in a rain and still have the wiper do its' thing without "vacationing" on the roof when I need it the most.

Hope this helps.

Tom
 
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