Windshield wipers

Hmmm - Pantera, Fresno California, windshield wipers????

Oh yea, in a cardboard tube, on one of the garage shelves, somewhere... thats where mine are parked

Black furniture leg plastic caps (Home Dept) and RainX do just fine.



YMMV

Larry

Ouch! Is this payback?

I have a broken toe. Do you wannna' just stomp on that also?

I have a Pantera without a full set of installed roller rockers - taking a little break before I start throwing things - and Vegas is two weeks away.

I'll take your broken toe in exchange for a running car

Seriously, I'm pretty sure you can get those puppies to park a lot closer than four inches up. May just be a function of the arms' indexing on the shaft splines and/or the position of the park contacts in the drive mechanism.

Larry

Mine are parked at the bottom (on the left). The wind pushes them up maybe half an inch onto the glass. If the right wiper were any higher it would hit the windshield surround during its sweep. They're adjustable on the splines.

My 71 car has them parked on the driver side and all the way down to the windshield rubber. I’ve only used them once and that was way back in 1998 so I don’t recall what the working sweep is.

Mike

If i rememebr correctly all the early cars parked on the left except the 74 whick parks on the right.

I believe Imguy is correct. I have a 74 that parks on the right, my neighbor has a 71 and his parks on the left. However, his parks all the way down and mine are up a few inches! I know his are original arms, I'm not sure about mine. And I fear of taking mine off! It can rain quite suddenly and hard here!
Tim

Hmmmmmmm, my Pantera came with an extra pair of seats, but no wipers. Hope I don't need them.

Robert

My '74 is just as OCWILEY described.

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Originally posted by OCWILEY:
I believe Imguy is correct. I have a 74 that parks on the right, my neighbor has a 71 and his parks on the left. However, his parks all the way down and mine are up a few inches!

That is correct and original. The 74 wipers are parked on the right, higher than the previous models. The tips are pointed down, to make the driver's wiper closer to parallel with the pillar when at the extremity of its stroke.

This is to reduce the size of the un-wiped triangle on the driver's side. The 73 and earlier cars have a huge un-wiped triangle on the passenger side.

The North American '74s are the only Panteras with the wipers on the opposite side, the cowl grills have the wiper shaft holes on the opposite side too.

This is the quick way to distinguish a '74 L from a '73L.

I guess DeTomaso preferred the earlier method, because the European '74s were not changed.

cfh

The original question was aren't the wipers supposed to park against the moldings?
All the cars I see with them are three or four inches up.

Not all!

Mike

When mine are "parked" they point downward and the tips almost touch the molding.

There is a certain amount of play in the mechanism. As speed increases the wind causes the wipers to crawl up the windshield a bit, until they are horizontal.

If they were set horizontal when parked, then as speed increased they would crawl too high upon the windshiled and become an annoyance, block vision, etc.

cowboy from hell

Mike,

every once in a while, I just have to mention, you have a beautiful Pantera. You take good care of it and it shows.

Mike, do you crazy glue them there? Very nice.

quote:

Originally posted by george pence:
Mike,

every once in a while, I just have to mention, you have a beautiful Pantera. You take good care of it and it shows.

Thanks George,

I started turning wrenches before I had a drivers license back in the olden days when I helped my Dad work on our old 40 Chevy family car. The Pantera has been a lot of fun including the first five years of ownership when I spent a lot of time rebuilding everything. Nowadays my “to do” list is empty and I just do preventive maintenance. Being its caretaker is a joy!

Mike

a picture is worth a 1000 words

The factory lied didn't they? The pictures were fabrications.
I need to talk to my shrink again.