Busted wiper spindle

[climberjim]

For a while my windscreen wipers have been waving at passers by on windy days. So ive decided to fix it today, I removed the right one (offside) put some stickey tape on the spindle and tightened it up and its worked. Now here's the problem I trided the same on the other and when tightening the bolt, it kept on turning and didnt get tight so I tried to get it off and the spindle just turned so it wont come off

Not sure what has broken, but somthing sure has.

What have I done and has anyone any idea how I can get to the back. Is it through the back of the dash or the grill

Hope that someone can help

Cheers Jim

[billy739]

inside of the van behind the dash

drop the glovebox and you can see the spindle on the n/s

with the arm removed check the spindle, the spindle will have splines for the arm, use a stanley blade or similar and strike each spilne. the metal from the arm (aluminium) fills the splins so no grip can be had.

hope fully it will just be the nut thats worn and a new one will sort it

[AdrianC]

inside of the van behind the dash

drop the glovebox and you can see the spindle on the n/s

How bad is it on the driver's side?

Cleaning the splines on the spindle, I found that some ham-"interfered with" numpty managed to shear the spindle whilst over-tightening the nut. They've drilled and tapped the end, and there's a screw in, but it's not exactly confidence-inspiring...

[Ian Hulley]

Dash out for rhd offside and lhd nearside.

[AdrianC]

Dash out for rhd offside and lhd nearside.

....ocks.