When you start getting angry, and you stop caring that you may accidentally break something by applying too much force; when you let loose the ferocious power within you... that is sometimes what it takes, to get things done.
It wasn't the blades I was trying to remove, but rather the whole wiper arms... I had to remove them in order to get the plastic cowl off, since they stick up through holes in the cowl. I did eventually manage it, one side with the batter terminal puller, and the other with an angry yank :-)
Although one time I even had a heck of a time removing one of the blades... the clip part may have fallen off, and it was stuck in, and I couldn't figure any way to get it out other than cutting it in the middle and then pulling the pieces out.
But anyway, I got the wiper arms off and the cowl off, and didn't find anything that looked very suspiciously like it might be causing a leak, so I just cleaned the crud out of there, and then replaced everything, and sealed the cowl with silicone up at the top where it had warped a bit and wasn't fitting tight against the windshield. So perhaps that will help, and perhaps not. I also procured a big sponge :)
Re: Windowshield wipers
Date: 2007-01-30 11:23 pm (UTC)From:Although one time I even had a heck of a time removing one of the blades... the clip part may have fallen off, and it was stuck in, and I couldn't figure any way to get it out other than cutting it in the middle and then pulling the pieces out.
But anyway, I got the wiper arms off and the cowl off, and didn't find anything that looked very suspiciously like it might be causing a leak, so I just cleaned the crud out of there, and then replaced everything, and sealed the cowl with silicone up at the top where it had warped a bit and wasn't fitting tight against the windshield. So perhaps that will help, and perhaps not. I also procured a big sponge :)