Splash shield for windshield wiper motor

[QUOTE]Originally posted by ron norman:
[B]Is someone willing to make an outline of their windshield wiper motor splash shield on some butcher's paper or typing paper or paper grocery bag and mail it to me please.

My 1973 L has just had the wiper motor refurbished and it is apparent that it filled up with water in the past. Later model Pantera's have a wiper motor splash shield and I want to make one out of a sheet of aluminum. It will be very helpful if I have a pattern to cut it out with.

If someone is handy and wants to make me one, I'll happily pay for it instead. If someone has gone to aluminum splash shields and is willing to sell their old metal one, I'll be happy to buy your old one.

Also, if a splash shield is used on the rear part of the driver's side front wheel well, I'd like to get a pattern for that splash shield also. I'll be happy to acquire an old one or a fabricated one for payment as well.

Please contact me at Ronaldcnorman@wmconnect.com

Thank you, Ron #4701

Ron:

I am reasonably sure that my wiper motor is cooked on my '74. My plan is to pull it next weekend and check it out. I'd be happy to make a cardboard template for you. Did you just bring your motor to a local motor shop? How much was the re-hab? I remember speaking with Wilkinson a couple of months back. I think he wanted around $135 for a "better-than-original" wiper motor.

Nils

Nils,
Your buddy and mine did it. Jon. In PA, ask him to e-mail you the pictures of the college kids that passed out at parties. They stuck about a hundred flat lollipops on this one kid's back and neck and butt. It looked like fur. Jon glass beaded the WWM, made a new fiberboard and rewired it. Painted it, too. I guess you figured out you don't need my extra chrome water bottle, eh?.

Another Pantera guy in Houston offered to send me his WWM splash shield so I can get it duplicated. Some really nice folks I've met here on the PI-BB. Including you Nils, and that Nordic humor of yours. Ask Jon about the suckers on the back and the guy who passed out and got his face painted black with a Magic Marker. That stuff doesn't wash out easily. Ask Jon about the WWM. I think a good excuse for you to go visit him in PA, how far could it be? An hour and a half? Take your WWM. Jon is in deep with a major project and now's a good time to see what he's doing. And thanks to both of you guys and Mr. L for the offers of help with the WWM splash shield. I think Mr. L is sending his WWMSS while his Pantera is on jack stands. e-mail me if you're going to see Jon and I'll send the extra springs for the WWM brushes back to him.

FWIW, most wiper-motor problems are really slight corrosion in the multipin connector that hooks the motor to the wiring loom. Spraying the connector out with Radio Shack Contact Cleaner fixes it. Failing that, the arcane reversing switch pasted on top of the wiper motor also has contacts that can be cleaned by spray, but be VERY careful in taking the fragile plastic cover off- it breaks easier than a good dream....