"hachiroku" > wrote in message
news:zH3Zd.1844$qN3.1589@trndny01...
> Reposted from al.dodge...
>
> Another engineer I'd like to punch in the nose, but that's for another
> thread:
>
> 1992 Plym Grand Voyager: this morning in a raging snowstorm the pass
> side windshied wiper stopped working. It appeared as though (from the
> sound) the linkage came undone. I removed the cowling, etc and found
> that was just what happened. The assembly is the wiper, a thing that
> looks like a knob with a shaft on it, and the end of the shaft is
> knurled. There was also a spring washer resting under the whole mess in
> the cowling.
>
> I pressed it all back together using two blocks of wood. The way it
> went together I didn't think it was ever coming apart again. It lasted
> all of 27 minutes.
>
> What is supposed to attach to the bottom of the splined shaft? is there
> a screw or clip I'm missing, or is it perhaps just worn to the point
> where it doesn't hold anymore?
>
> TIA

Actually that wiper system is a good design, but if the pivot comes apart
you have to replace the complete pivot, turning the wipers on while they are
frozen to the windshield usually causes that to happen

Glenn Beasley
Chrysler Tech