How To Repair The Stripped Spines Of The Windshield Wiper Bushings

• #1

Howdy, I have a Jetta Wagon TDI 2005. The rider side wiper no longer works, the motor turns but from what I tin tell the teeth in the arm are all warn smooth.

The teeth on the motor gear look to still exist in good shape.

It was working fine until this weekend when I stupidly tried the wipers while they were frozen to the windshield. Doh 0_o!

Has anyone encountered this before and come with a garage solution to making the wiper usable? I've had a few ideas, but they all will likely attach the arm permanently to the motor, which I do non desire to do, or they'll potentially screw up the good teeth on the motor's gear.

If not, where would exist the best place to buy a new arm?

Thanks

jasonTDI

TDI GURU Vendor , w/Business number

• #3

Did yous attempt tightening information technology down start. The only other matter y'all tin can do is supervene upon the transmission assembley or the arm, or both.

• #4

cut a small strip from an aluminum tin and wrap that around the drive pin. With some finagling you lot should exist able to printing that arm back on there. tighten her upwards. should hold y'all until you tin get new arm.
thanks for the heads upwardly on the arm stipping, didn't call up that was possible.

• #6

Howdy RichS, yup that'southward it. I'll see if I tin can't take a metal scribe to the spline on the within of the blade arm, although it looks almost like it has been polished, so I'm non holding out hope

Give thanks goodness this happened to the rider arm, as it is raining today.

Quote from the VW dealer is $60 for the part, I'thousand looking effectually the net for the part and not having much luck finding it. Wiper motors are sold on all the sites, but not the artillery.

RichS said:

This is what the splined connection of the wiper mount looks like. The wiper arm is just a cast piece that is pressed on the wiper mountain. You may exist able to clean the textile out of the splined wiper mount and put the wiper arm dorsum on with no bug. I think this design is used for the very same problem you encountered with a frozen wiper arm. Skillful luck.

• #viii

No problem. The wiper arm is mostly aluminum, the wiper stud is steel. Accept something pointy and sharp and just clean the aluminum out of the threads on the wiper stud.

• #10

The Loctite stuff you want is call "Sleeve and Bearing Servant", and it'due south sold in a pocket-size tube.

The same thing happened to my B4, just I simply got a new arm out of a junkyard for costless.

Are the artillery the same equally the B4 series or are they something weird? Near yards should have the older artillery in them.

• #12

if it'southward anything similar my kids camry cleaning out the splines won't help.on it the arm has a shoulder on information technology so the arm tin merely press down on the splines so far.what i did on it was i took a big drill chip in my drill press and cut into the wiper arm almost an ane/eight of an inch to permit the arm to set lower,it tightened right upwardly.and so far so good.

jasonTDI

TDI GURU Vendor , due west/Business concern number

• #xiv

Yep, with hunting one downwards the cost in time would exist silly. They are but $30 from VW.

• #15

I took the communication above and cranked down on the nut to tighten it. It appears to have worked (nosotros are supposed to have pelting the adjacent couple days, so information technology'll get put to the test).

I wasn't sure about doing that prior to reading this because I didn't want to impairment the threads on the spline, since they are steel and the wiper is aluminum, I experience better

In the hateful time I'm going to continue an eye out at the junk yards.

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