Thread: Wiper for Florida monsoons

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I'm fitting a top to my deuce roadster and would like to use a wiper such as the Quick Mount by Vintique. Has anyone used one of these with a Topster or similar portable soft top?

I had a roadster several years ago, and the best thing I found was to run RainX on the windshield rather than a wiper. I was caught in one heck of a rainstorm north of Louisville one year, the kind of rain that had rodders stopped under overpasses. I did not have a wiper, and the RainX caused the water to bead and run off the windshield so I had no trouble seeing the road. Sometimes a wiper just makes it harder to see.

Yup, used one similar. They meet the requirements of the law to have wipers....or at least that's all the good mine ever did. Like Rumrumm, I'm a firm believer in use the rain X, keep the wiper off. When it gets worse then that, I go looking for shelter!!!!!

Rain x is what everybody i know uses,and i live in monsoon country

My dad taught me the Rain X deal many years ago and I use it regulary on all my cars. It's almost mandatory to use it here just to survive in the downpours. It dosen't work on the roadster however. Apparently the areodynamics are so that it just dances around and won't blow off. I have fought while driving to raise it up to increase the angle but it was the same condition as soon as it was back to the stop. Besides all the rain that came in under it when it was lifted up.
I got caught in a bad one late last year and had to follow the white and yellow lines looking over the door in order to get home and almost hit a bridge when the yellow skirted over inches from the concrete rail. It was so strong that the rain was blowing clear through the overpasses. The top and goggles should help but the rain still just hangs , hence the wiper thought.

I run a Pacific Raingear wiper on my 32 roadster.

It doesn't do a whole lot on the 2" chopped windshield.

Rain-X does the trick, spent more than a couple days running in moderate to hard rainstorms.
The water does tend to run around in circles on the windshield, but it does run off and visibility is just fine.

Pic shows the wiper installed into a drilled out finger pull hole.
Keeps the wiper motor out of the line of sight.