Thread: SPW wiper system install questions

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Can someone make suggestions as to where to install the passenger side transmission for the Specialty Power Window wiper install? This is a steel 5 window car. The body has a factory mount hole already punched. Is this too far to the right of the car? Also, I am having a hard time bending 3/8" tubing for the drive cable up through the A-post without kinking or collapsing it. Any suggestions here? And should I weld sleeves in through the body at the transmission mounts? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks

Can't speak for the 32,but I put the system on my 34.I used a tube bender to bend the tubing.The mounting hole should be OK as the transmission only rotates back and forth.I mounted mine into a wood strip mounted behind the decorative panel.I also put two wipers on. I think I would go electric if I had it to do over,as I didn't like all that grease that they suggest you use.

Thanks for the reply. The kit comes with .035 wall aluminum tubing that I had to try to feed up through the A-pillar from the bottom and work through an opening at the top of the post. Then bend by hand to get it routed across the top of the windshield to the transmission that is mounted where the original vacuum unit was located. I had to do this at the base of the post also. There was no way I could prebend, then install. This has been frustrating to say the least. Any kink in the tubing binds up the cable when I slide it through and I don't know how much drag this motor can take. I can push and pull the cable through, but it does have considerable drag. I'm going to wire the motor up temporarily and see if it will drive the cable.