Brains Trust Help - Vacuum Wipers

[Ganmain Tony]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Back in my old Dodge days.... we use to take them apart....clean them... usually gummed up...... lightly lubricate with Vaseline petroleum jelly and they worked like new...... some US surplus suppliers still have Dodge wiper repair kits....

Bob

You'll be a good boy Bob just as soon as you divulge the names of these US surplus suppliers

Just for the record - I pulled em apart - greased them up - put em back together and put em back on the truck. Transferred the little vacuum outlet off my little Cab 13 to the 12 (where the advance is under the carbie) connected up the vacuum hose (which I got from Mac's) and Viola! They worked a treat.

I was suprised to find they were just about perfect inside - like new!

Bought a 6 foot roll of Vacuum hose. It was only just enough to reach one wiper motor. I'll have to get more.

Just on that subject. Where the hell is the vacuum line supposed to run on a Ford 12 Cab??? I'll take some pictures of what I've done but Ive got no idea if its the original way

Thanks to Ken, Jim and Brian & Boob for all the input to this thread. Its been a great help to me....

[Howard]

Tony the remnants of my vac supply: Steel pipe up the driver's A pillar & across the top, Rubber hose to the wiper motors. Pipe was cut off at the bottom RH corner of the windscreen area so how it continued on from there I do not know. Give Phil Furnell a ring & check out the one on his farm its cab is very original.

[Lynn Eades]

I have some pictures of general interest. Various different types of Trico wiper motors.
In the first pic. Front British made (shield shape) second. the style that was on my 42 Dodge wc55. (the cover is the same shape top and bottom) 3rd Came from (I am told) a French 6x6 Dodge. Lastly the back one. Is this CMP?
This is a British kit, which only talks about the valve assy.
By the way the wwII vehicles only used the vacuum hose in short pieces. Rubber was hard to get The tubes were steel. on the Dodge the steel tees we formed with alloy castings.

[Ganmain Tony]

Thats the one Lynn.

The two motors on my truck look exactly like that last one you suspected was a CMP wiper motor.

Drooling over that kit. Look at all the goodies in there!!!

Thanks H, I'll pop up later and have a look. Didnt realise your beast had that set up still on it.

[Bob Carriere]

I use to by a lot form A B Linn in North Carolina...

...... but.... with recent regulations/penalties a lot of surplus vendors will NO longer ship outside the USA or ... in my case I maintain a USA post office across the upper New York state border.... but since my bank account address is Canadian will not even allow me to bid on Ebay anymore....

Solution to this..... if I really needed something I would ask Phil in New Hampshire to bid for me and remail to my address..... sneaky.

Dirk use to have some NOS wiper motors..... not sure if he is stil listing them.

Comment about the rain referred to by Brian.... on Dec. 1st this year Ottawa had more rain than the record for the whole month of December...ever !!!

If the rain had been snow we would have had over 3 feet... at least we did not have to shovel it..

Bob

[Ganmain Tony]

Thanks Bob, I wonder wether they still have stuff - it would be handy to get the kits.

Ive embarked on a set up anyway that I think would be very close if not the same as the original.

Luckily a couple of the clamps that held the piping were still in on the truck when I pulled it apart to restore it.

I took a guess that the hole in the arch bar in front of the steering wheel may have been for wiper tube access. At any rate it is a practical access point.

I confess I only checked the drivers side motor when I bragged about them working and it has come back to bite me in the backside. The passenger side motor still does not work. Ive tested the vacuum to the motor and it is fine, so I must still have a blockage in there somewhere.

Anyway the drivers one works perfectly. Even returns to the correct rest point automatically when turned off.