Thread: Wipers for a '30 Model A?

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Anyone have any suggestions for 1930 Model A windsheild wipers?

I don't want to use the overhead wiper, I would rather find something more modern that I can adapt to fit at the bottom of the windshield in the cowel.

Thanks.

Putting a wiper on the bottom of the windshield is very difficult because of the cowl gas tank. If you have removed the tank, then this is not a huge problem. I put mine on top using a marine wiper set up. That may work for you.

Larry
1931 Ford Town Sedan Resto Rod

I will be using a 32 frame so the gas tank will be in the back.
I have cut out the cowl tank and there is plenty of room up there.

Are the marine wipers are generic after market?

Newport wipers just came out with a slick dual wiper system for the model A.
has delay and washer options. Very Very nice unit.
Although it mounts above the windshield. I thought about the same thing you want but nobody makes anything. I could fab something up but decided it just wouldn't look right. After raggin on Bob at Newport he finally built a system that works and looks good and when it parks the blades hide up under the sun visor.

www.newportwipers.com

Pacific Raingear makes this one.

Nice and small.

It ends up, upside down from the upper mounting position so you have to open it up and reverse the gears . . . otherwise it parks the blade in the wrong place.

Easily done and shown in the instructions.


On my 32 - and your A should be similar:

Drill the left side finger pull hole out to 3/8" - if I remember right, measure first.
Do the drilling in a drill press.
Block and clamp the windshield frame horizontally and protect the finish from scratches.
A piece of plywood on the drill press table does the trick.

You'll probably find you have to cut a notch in the windshield glass.
Scary, but not a problem.
Use a new 5% Cobalt twist drill and feel slowly.
The drill will cut a notch in the installed glass with no problems.
Just don't get carried away with the pressure and don't go so light the drill rubs on the glass and goes dull.
No cutting fluids required.
Use a medium speed on the drill press.


Cut the supplied aluminum bezel to length.
You may want to file an arc in the bezel due to the A's windshield frame is round tubing instead of rectangular tubing like in the 32's.

Shorten the top of the blade so it clears a chopped windshield.

Install and wire.

Works well, but the swept area is so small that Rain-X is what really does the job for me.

Makes the Gendarmes happy and sometimes that's all you need....

Look..............you can even see some old guy holding a camera reflected in the upper framework!!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Look..............you can even see some old guy holding a camera reflected in the upper framework!!

Bein' an old guy is what a lot of young guys aspire to....


You'll note the camera is off to one side and not blocking the drivers vision.

I always remember the old pilots adage of; pilot who take picture of ground from airplane soon take picture of own crash site....