By taking a few precautions and adding extra time to plan your work, you can replace the windshield wiper motor assembly in your car, truck, or SUV in short order, saving you time and money.

Wiper Motor. Windshield wipers are powered by a small electric motor, ... If your wipers don’t work, the fault could also lie with other parts of the wiper system.

Motor Woes. Is that motor assembly bad? Before you trot out and spend money on a new one, there are a few things to check out. Get a schematic diagram for the wiper system and parse out how it works.

Classic '65-'78 Mustangs were equipped with three basic types of wiper motors. For '65-'66, Mustangs came with one- and two-speed wipers. From '67-'78, there was a new two-speed wiper motor used ...

How the Wiper System Works. Modern windshield wiper assemblies have several parts: the wiper switch, electronic wiper motor, linkage assembly, two wiper arms and washer fluid tank.

A quick phone call was all it took and by week’s end the wiper kit was on our workbench. The installation is quite simple, although working under the confines of the C1 Corvette dashboard will ...

Also, ice and friction can tear wiper blades away from the base that attaches them to the wiper motor. If this kind of damage happens, your windshield wipers will likely still be moving, but they ...

The fix is to "replace the windshield wiper motor with a wiper motor that has a properly functioning gate driver component." The wiper motor recall affects 11,688 cars.

How To Install 2-Speed Windshield Wipers on a 1958-1962 Corvette. Clean Sweep: Modern two-speed wipers for C1 Corvettes ...