Windshield wipers wont come off

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MysticMac

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My wiper cowls are shot and Im scared of water getting in my plug wells and ruining my new coils and plugs. I cannot for the life of me get off the wipers in order to remove the plastic trim to access the cowl. I removed the nut on both wipers and they seem stuck on there.
 
MysticMac said:
My wiper cowls are shot and Im scared of water getting in my plug wells and ruining my new coils and plugs. I cannot for the life of me get off the wipers in order to remove the plastic trim to access the cowl. I removed the nut on both wipers and they seem stuck on there.
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Push the arm against the windshield. Or you can use a gear puller.
 
Don't try to pull from the arm (and not the stationary base of the arm either). Giving it a rotational force makes it impossible. Pull from directly under the hole. But if they've never been off before, you may actually need the puller
 
A small two-arm gear puller makes it ridiculously easy.
 
Push it on, tighten the bolt. Make sure it's not loose. It's not a critical part
 
FDR said:
Push it on, tighten the bolt. Make sure it's not loose. It's not a critical part
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I think it is a critical part that's more situational based, I had 1984 Buick park avenue fully loaded with the 20 pound moon roof that you could drop a bomb on and the car would be destroyed but the moon roof would still be on its track. Lol

But back to the wipers. I called myself buying some chrome double blade wipers put them on and yes they brought the look of the car out perfect, since I had the chrome piece that sat along the wiper rest area.

Was on 290 in Chicago coming from work and it started to rain pretty bad needless to say I had to turn up the wiper speed to keep up with the rain and right at full tilt I loss the passenger side, so I'm like ok I can still see, yeah right up until the driver side wiper flew off. Luckily I was smart enough to get in the far right lane ( the granny lane ) when I lost the passenger side just in case the driver side came off which it did.
 
To clarify, by "critical", I meant "not a stressed part that requires torquing". Did you lose the whole arm or did you lose just the chrome blades?
 
Ok it was just the chrome chrome blade.

Also to the original poster be careful taking them off I cracked my windshield when the arm fell down trying to put them back on ( the ls that is.)
 
Man, you have having a rough day with these wipers... I've had wiperless arms smack the windshield before. It gives you a little bit of a panic as you check to see the glass is ok
 
I was changing the blades out one day and had it in the held out point, while grabbing the new wiper blade, it snapped back and threw a crack all the way across the windshield. almost made me throw up...

fukcing stupid how poorly the wipers stay all the way out, some cars don't have a resting point at all, some have a pretty good amount of retention when they are out, I would prefer either of these compares to the way both the wiper arms barely stay out and snap back with little to no help at all.

Chevy Cavalier > Lincoln LS
 
We just bought a '16 Volvo XC60. Very pretty, wife really likes it.

To change the wipers, you have to do a full process:
get into Ignition II (key present, press and hold Start, do not press brake pedal)
Press a sequence of three buttons
wipers move out to maintenance position so you can raise them (normally too close to the hood to pull out)
when done, press Start. Wipers retract.
Has to be done within a few minutes or can run down the battery due to all the other stuff that's on in IgnII.

*sigh*
 
is there enough room if you open the hood instead of having to leave the ignition on?
 
I like recent Fords. I don't know about how well the arms stay up, but it seems the old motor+mechanism has been replaced with individual servo(?) motors and position sensors. You can pull the wipers up the windshield freely, then pull them off. Then just rotate the arm back down into the cowl. Or don't. The car doesn't care since they'll reseat themselves when you start it. They also sit in a "ready" position a few inches up when turned on.
 
1LoudLS said:
is there enough room if you open the hood instead of having to leave the ignition on?
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Dunno yet, but doesn't look like it. The hinge is pretty far back and the hood goes pretty far up.

Also trying to find service manuals. Looks like Volvo has taken an AllData kind of approach - monthly subscriptions to ALL of their software and manuals, to the tune of thousands of dollars.
But a Volvo never breaks, right?
 
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