Re: 1947 Ford Coupe wiper conversion
I made the mistake of getting an electric wiper conversion kit from Bob Drake. I had to cut the support bracket down so that it would clear the cowl vent and it parked with the wipers against the center of the windshield instead of down at the cowl. Multiple calls to them for help were useless. They sent me a diagram to fix the parking issue, and that was also useless. I finally fixed it by taking the cover off and re-clocking the gears by trial and error. Now it parks and sweeps correctly. As far as the switch goes, I'm going to rig it so mine fits in where the original throttle went. My plan is to use a replacement knob with the T on it and mate it to the switch that came with the wiper kit. I did buy a switch shaft extension from Newport, but I still couldn't figure out how to make the switch work in the original location. I just put a replacement dummy control in the original location.
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