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Just a quick one, in case anyone has experience of similar; my second Land Rover 90 is due it's MOT in a few weeks, but the wheelbox that powers the passenger side winscreen wiper has stripped all of its teeth. I now have a working drivers side wiper and nothing on the pasenger side. I intend to fix it but the job is so long and fiddly (dash out etc...) As I have a working drivers blade which lets me see through a rainy screen enough to drive, if I remove the non working arm, will it pass an MOT? I should point out that the vehicle does about 20 road miles a week tops, mainly used as a private land runaround, but theres a bit of public road linking some of the shoots we use it for so it needs to be road legal.
"I should point out that the vehicle does about 20 road miles a week tops"
I'm not sure the MOT people accept 'mitigating circumstances' 😉
I'd expect they'd want the whole screen cleared - pedestrians tend to step off the kerb on the nearside...
Do you mean the splines where the wiper arm fits on ?
If so, that is an easily replaced separate part.
The shaft itself has got a flat on it. The splined adapter has got a D shaped hole to match the shaft with a grub screw to lock it in place.
The grub screw will probably be seized in its hole so you will have to grind the whole thing away on one side until it is loose.
Failing that, fold the windscreen down. 8)
Wipers and washers are not required on a vehicle with a folding windscreen.
A lot of cars just use a bar to link both arms together. Bolt one to both wiper arms near the pivot, so that one motor drives both?
LR must have had a demon designer to make changing a wiper motor a dash out job...
Land Rover use a spiral wire inside a tube with wheel boxes.
It may be that the teeth have worn off the wheel box where it engages the spiral wire, in which case, the only option is to take the dash out. It's not that big a job, nothing like taking the dash out of a car.
Big wad of glue to hold it for the test and then fix it later?