Thanks for the info on the Porsche 911 3.2 wiper motor replacement for the fj60. I have been fighting the same problem for years using replacement motors with no luck. I have a 87 fj60, do you think the conversion will work om my truck? If so, can you give me some more detail on the Porsche motor. When I try to purchase a motor what year and model Porsche will work etc. Thanks again for your post! strom
FJ60 upgrade/conversion/retrofit to better wiper motor?
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So are you saying you kept intermittent and high speed, or just the constant low and high speeds? If this is an improvement over the OEM 60 motor, it sound like a good upgrade. Do you have a part number, or remember what year porsche you used for reference?
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Bumping this thread to see if anyone has since retrofitted any hardware to the stock 60 assembly or found another motor that works. I'm probably going to find a junkyard wiper motor out of a later truck and see what I can do
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I started looking into it as a side project to my two dozen other side projects. The motors I was looking at starting with were 90's/early 2000's Toyotas, it seems like pretty much all of them (including 80/100 series LC's) have the same or similar mounting as well as the same spline to the cowl linkage. So it should just be a matter of mounting it, and if you use a motor that has the same amount of speeds (intermittent, low and high)then it should be as simple as a splicing a connector I would think.
My '86 had the same short problem when I wiggled the harness. Took it apart and almost every solder joint had come apart. Looks like it was cold soldered.
I cleaned it up and did a quick solder job and it's a good as new. I went ahead and added a little grease as well.
From reading the thread it looks like a common problem with an easy fix. Not really a lot that can go wrong with them.
Kind of like these.
I cleaned it up and did a quick solder job and it's a good as new. I went ahead and added a little grease as well.
From reading the thread it looks like a common problem with an easy fix. Not really a lot that can go wrong with them.
Kind of like these.
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I switched my motor out and mine stops at a location higher up the windshield when it should be at the bottom. How do you adjust the set point down? I let it stop with out blades on it and thought that would be the correct spot but it wasn't.
Mine “worked” until i turned it on in this past snow storm..
going to explore 80 series options as well
After recently messing around with my wiper linkage (was playing around with refurbishing but realized just yesterday I boogered up an install of the Wit's End motor/linkage bushing so it ended up too tight on the ball) and installing a new OEM linkage since I didn't have an extra bushing to continue experimenting with my old set, this leaves my old motor as the new "weak link" to find either a suitable upgrade, or a method to refurbish it in a way that'll retain reliability and preferably wiper speed. This is a part that's going the way of unobtanium, so a retrofit/upgrade or refurb I think would greatly fill the market. I tinkered with my motor a bit last weekend and it definitely is a very basic system. What's interesting is that there is a potted part of the wiper motor that the wires feed through. If it is only potted for the sake of protecting soldered joints, I think a great start will be upgrading the size of the ground wire and having a pigtail instead of the OEM connector that comes out a few inches into a Delphi/GM Weather Pack connector. These allow FAR better contact than the old worn out spade terminals that are used in the OEM connector. The bushes in the motor and the commutator showed very little wear, so that's not a concern at all really (as opposed to the 60/61/62 HVAC blowers and their crap aftermarket counterparts).
This is definitely going on "the list"....
This is definitely going on "the list"....
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Hello Everyone, resurrecting this thread ... have an HJ60 and the arm keeps coming off the motor ... any idea where I can get a bushing to keep it in place?
I used a generic bushing I got from NAPA and it has worked for me for several years.
It’s not a perfect fit and Requires some modification, but seems to have worked fairly well for me.
NAPA part 6003505 - comes with 4 so you can afford to botch one or two or have a few spares..
I believe the modification is drilling the inside of the bushing so that the wiper arm ball can fit inside.
The wiper arm ball is not perfectly round, there’s a large ‘pin’ and the modification is just getting that pin to fit in the bushing.
Thank you will try that and see if I can get it to stay ... any resistance and the wipers stop working...
Trail Tailor used to have replacement bushings at one point? Search the forum I know someone ID’d them
Another option, and a life time upgrade. Still working perfectly too!
forum.ih8mud.com
Wiper Linkage Overhaul
forum.ih8mud.com
FWIW, this part is DORMAN 49451 ... $12 at NAPA ... $2 everywhere else.
