Spent Saturday with Ryan diagnosing a bad relay in my air horn. Spent Sunday cleaning and painting a mini-truck PS gear box and a 3-speed floor shifter - you'd think the guy I bought them from would've done that for me. 
Whats everybody doing this weekend?
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Land Shark
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Funny how things turn out. No painting on the 80. Shopped for a few things for the camper Sunday was pool and cook out day with the fam. Great weather here in RVA
?..Spent Sunday cleaning and painting a mini-truck PS gear box and a 3-speed floor shifter - you'd think the guy I bought them from would've done that for me.
Had I done that, I would have been too attached to them and wouldn't have been willing to sell to them to you
Shiny Cruiser parts are too seductive for me to resist, whether I need them or not.
Stumpalama
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Had I done that, I would have been too attached to them and wouldn't have been willing to sell to them to you
Shiny Cruiser parts are too seductive for me to resist, whether I need them or not.
mmmm, shiny Cruiser parts. I'll take 'em! oh, wait, what are you selling? Oh, who cares, I'll take em.
Stumpalama
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How about (somewhat unsuccessfully) converting my 40 to have stock intermittent wipers? A birthday present from my pal in Australia was a 40 wiper switch, intermittent wiper mechanism, and a RHD 40 wiper motor.
I got all the wiring done up to the motor, then determined the RHD motor won't mount up, duh.
So I deconstructed the RHD motor to reverse engineer the US motor into a neg ground motor. This seem straight forward at first, then I wondered why the RHD motor turned fine when hooked up to power but the US on just sat there.
After drawing the same diagram 50 times and studying the FJ60 wiper schematic 100 more times, it hit me... in order for the motor to be a negative ground motor, the common leg has to be grounded. DERR!
So, as you can see in this link on the 40-55 tech page, i think I cracked the code.
I will be testing my work tomorrow and hoping it tests SAT.
Now can anyone tell me what the mechanism circled in red on the left wiper motor housing is? I am curious.
I got all the wiring done up to the motor, then determined the RHD motor won't mount up, duh.
So I deconstructed the RHD motor to reverse engineer the US motor into a neg ground motor. This seem straight forward at first, then I wondered why the RHD motor turned fine when hooked up to power but the US on just sat there.
After drawing the same diagram 50 times and studying the FJ60 wiper schematic 100 more times, it hit me... in order for the motor to be a negative ground motor, the common leg has to be grounded. DERR!
So, as you can see in this link on the 40-55 tech page, i think I cracked the code.
I will be testing my work tomorrow and hoping it tests SAT.
Now can anyone tell me what the mechanism circled in red on the left wiper motor housing is? I am curious.
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I answered your question in your other posting. It is the intermittent switch that shorts the circuit when you turn off the wipers; using the collapsing magnetic field from the wiper motor to provide just enough power to park the wiper blades.
Professor Morthimer could give you better guidance on this.
Stumpalama
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Anyone have a spare late model wiper motor they have no use for?
Stumpalama
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Well, I now have a negative ground wiper motor with intermittent wipers!
Now I just have to tweak the parking location... It seems to vary quite a bit now when it didn't before.
Now I just have to tweak the parking location... It seems to vary quite a bit now when it didn't before.
No wonder it gets confused and doesn't know if it should park left or park right! With that mix of Aussie and NA parts, it doesn't know which hemisphere it's in anymore. 
SAS
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Stumpalama
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Stale Ale: I hadn't though of that, but your theory has merit.
SAS: Yeah... with a good working model and enough staring, it becomes straight forward. I just gotta remember to "mic it out" using the multi-meter first rather than smoke checking everything.
SAS: Yeah... with a good working model and enough staring, it becomes straight forward. I just gotta remember to "mic it out" using the multi-meter first rather than smoke checking everything.
CondeCruiser
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I got a motor if you need it Stump. I can bring it tomorrow if your comin to Toms.
well. replaced duel filter. did plugs wire caps rotor. i got fuel on all pistons. i got spark. but number 2 and 3 i can unhook them and nother changes. wth. i hope you all have a better weekend then me. i just cant figure this 22re motor out. what were they thinking when they made these motors with all the hoses going everywhere . chevy smallblock so much easyer lol if i cant get it running right it looks liek next month i buy a chevy bellhouseing. and starting geting everything together for a 4.3 v6 swap with a w56 trans set up/ anyone local to baltimore good with 22re motors?
