The wiper motor is too big 😟

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cmcmill01

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After decidingto fix my wipers, one speed, and never returned to home, I had a look and the PO wiring was rubbish!

So ordered a new one off eBay, low and behold the new motor is about 1cm too big and the cover won't fit on!! The wipers work prefectly!!

You can see the last 2 pictures so my existing and the new part numbers!!

The FJ40 is a 1978 so checking now I thought the bigger motor should have fitted!!

Any idea on where to fine the smaller motor, or make the bigger one fit??

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The bigger motor does work way better in my opinion. You can find the bigger cover. They are getting hard to find. I found one last fall on Ebay for cheap.
 
I do have the smaller motor if you would rather go that route. PM me if you are intersted.
 
I think I still have a few of the larger covers.
 
cmcmill01 said:
Sounds good, could you DM me the info? Do the large covers still screw into the same holes?
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The larger cover is longer, can't remember if it is deeper. The bolt spacing on the side of the cover is the same and should match up. I used a rivnut to secure the other side. So I have 3 out of 4 bolts holding it down. Get the wiper cover gasket from City Racer.
I'll get you a pic as soon as I can.
 
I ran across the larger motor issue last year when I was rebuilding my w/s frame. I had to use two frames to make one. My original frame had the larger motor and a chrome rusty motor cover which is the is red one in the pic. The chrome/red cover was altered to fit the motor(checkout the pic). I wanted to use the green cover but found it wouldn't fit the larger motor. I had a large cover on the shelf and found the bolt holes were different. I ended up reusing the altered red/chrome cover in the end, because it fit. The only thing I could figure was the larger motor was a replacement. I tried to use the smaller motor but it looked like the wiring in the plug was different and the wire pigtail was ran differently.
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Like mentioned need larger cover you will need to drill two new holes in your window frame you can if lucky drill a round hole in the end of the small cover and make it fit but need to be accurate drill a hole big enough for the tip of the larger motor to slightly poke through. I had a cover like that the PO drilled the hole perfect the motor sealed perfectly in the hole I didn’t even notice it sticking through until removing the cover it just looked like a bulge in the cover. Only notice it was a hole when I removed it to replace /service the motor. Just thought I would mention it for someone creative. lol. Easier to drill two new holes for sure.
 
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