Today’s show (1/29/2012) there was a call about a sticking windshield wiper. The car guys recommended a new motor. There is an alternative solution you need to know about. My 1986 Sentra experienced similar problem while i was driving the freeway in the middle of what we call a gully washer. I was e…

I think old cars from the past used to have manual wipers. The driver had to operate them manually, with some kind of lever from the inside. Anybody remember this? I think some kind of back-up should be built into cars for things that fail regularly. They should have a manual backup on all cars…

The wiper motor failed on a Ford van years ago and I pulled the linkage off the motor, linked a dozen or so rubber bands to the passenger side wiper arm and a shoe lace to the driver’s side. I drove 60 miles home pulling and releasing the shoe lace.

They indeed did; Model A Fords (among others I’m sure) had the beloved vacuum powered wiper, with the motor mounted on the top of the windshield frame. It also had a small lever for hand operation. This particular Model A belonged to a buddy who bought it as a restoration project; the motor was so t…

I remember a 1947 Jeep that had a crank operated wiper on the passenger side. The two school buses I rode when I was in elementary school had wipers that had a handle inside the bus to operate the wipers if the vacuum motor failed. One bus was a 1939 model with a Wayne body on a GMC chassis and th…

Luckily, Triedag, I was never encumberred with an academic education. I feel sure that I reached my intellectual limits when I read Erma Bombeck and Jean Shephard. But some of us can recognize our talents and make the best of them. A friend repaired a Mercedes Benz for a doctor who contested the bil…

Rod Knox–my brother has a Ph.D. in English and taught a couple of years in a small state college. When the president of the college told the faculty in a meeting that faculty were a dime a dozen, my brother wrote out his resignation, took it to the president, gave him a dime and said “Go buy a doze…

… I was surely not going to call AA and wait for a tow.Which of the 12 steps deals with towing stranded motorists?

Good one, jt! A Freudian slip on the part of the OP, perhaps? ;-))

This doesn’t sound too particularly safe to me. Or healthy…if that water molds-up the carpeting. Calling the auto club and getting a tow is a far better solution IMHO.

Triedaq, I’d love to have seen the guy’s jaw drop when he heard that a PhD/former professor/lawyer was a plumber. It reminds me of the time a doctor needed his plumbing fixed and when presented the bill complained that it was more than he charged his patients. “I know”, replied the plumber. “I us…

Failing wipers - 'real men' solution

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oldtimer-11 February 2, 2012, 10:07am 14

Carry some rainX in the glove box and you won’t need the wipers. For the over educated, it doesn’t really work in the glove box, you have to put it on the windshield.

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