Wipers, washer bottle and wood door caps

I have made a little progress, not bad actually considering Holiday travel and two weeks in Hawaii.

I have the original washer bottle, I think.  The internals are black plastic and seem to be ready to work.  I have seen some internal components that are brass, but they may have come from a Jaguar, or earlier Magnette. I cleaned up the pieces, there was a little rust on the spring inside the plastic chamber.  The washer operates off engine vacuum.  When you depress the washer button, vacuum pulls washer fluid from the large jar into the spring chamber, compressing the spring.  When the button is released the spring expands, pushing washer fluid out the jets.  I have it all installed but not tested yet.

I have a new Trico decal, will have to apply it.

The windshield wipers take a bit of fiddling, cleaning old grease, bench testing the motor, and re-installing.  I painted the black cover for the motor and cleaned up the aluminum housing a bit. I re-greased the drive gear and connecting rod to the cable drive shaft. 

Wiper motor ready to go

Cover plate removed to show motor drive cable on round gear. The shaft to the right
connects from the gear to the end of the long inner drive cable that
runs to each blade box assembly. The small washer pictured goes under the shaft
 and the copper piece and c-clip on top.  This assembly to the inner wiper drive cable
is done in the car with the wiper motor already mounted.

Close up shows the gap in the copper cap, this causes the motor to
stop and "parks" the wiper blades when the wiper switch is turned off.
With the top plate loosened this cap can be rotated to adjust the parking point.

Parts for the wiper blade box assemblies.



Wheel assembly on drive shaft, outside of car to illustrate.
See the Service parts list, page 141 for illustration.



Mounted in the car and working. Still need to attach the wiper blades.

I have been finishing the interior and re-installed the wooden door caps, they look good. Unfortunately I overlooked cleaning and preparing the rear door pulls and the vinyl panels that fill the holes, in the door panels, under the door pulls and rope pulls in the front.  So I am doing that and then should get the door panels, window cranks and door cranks in place after that.