Sawyer Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 (edited) So a couple of weeks ago my windscreen wipers stopped working. Tested fuse all ok. I got a replacement motor from Izzy. Today I started taking the old motor off, undid the 4 bolts, pulled it through a bit and undid the nut on the back! Then I hit a problem. I still couldn't get the motor off, completely stuck! I managed to get a screw drivers behind it, and off it popped! But it's popped off at the ball joint inside! Now I still can't get the ball joint off the motor and then I've no idea how I'm going to get it back inside the ball joint once I refit to my new motor. If I ever manage to do that. Anyone replaced a wiper motor before can advice before I put my car up for sale again. (very clean but missing window wipers) Heres a couple of pictures: The old motor, with the ball joint part completely stuck on. Where it used to live on the engine bay, with the old ball joint inside that little hole. Any ideas?! Edited June 23, 2012 by Sawyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnyboy1976 Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 no but you need to clean up that dirt in ya bay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Red Celica Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Scrap the car!! Can you hook it out with a bit of coat hanger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 I can hook the ball joint inside out. But I don't see how I'll be able to press it back in. Also I still can't get that ball joint off the motor, it's completely seized. I'm going to stick to cleaning them in future, i'm useless with spanners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Got those 2 bits apart. more WD40 and it popped off eventually. Now to try and get that ball joint part back in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lta Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Told ya it was hard dude. Try getting a spanner behind the joint inside the bulkhead to give you something to push against when re fitting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 In other good news, managed to fit my seat belt. So I now have a working passenger seat belt. In other bad news, just noticed some rust under my rear spoiler. Will take it off for some investigation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Managed to get the ball joint back on after having a spot of lunch and using 2 screwdrivers. Now just fit it to the motor and away we go! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Yay!!!! Managed to fit it and got it working!!! Now took them all off again to get the wipers a lick of paint and also the motor before refitting. I love my GT-Four. :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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