Windshield wipers are powered by a small electric motor, usually mounted on the firewall or under the cowl (the area under the windshield’s base). The motor activates linkage that moves the wiper arms ...

Many of us have been in this scenario: driving down the road in the rain, you turn on your windshield wipers only to have them do an inadequate job clearing your field of view. Perhaps the wiper is ...

Whether your 1966 or 1967 Chevelle is Pro-Touring, Pro-Street, or Pro-Commuter, the stock electric wiper motor is nearly 50 years old. Not that 50 is old, but for a windshield wiper motor that was not ...

Windshield wipers are such a simple little thing on the front of your windshield, that it can be easy to underestimate their importance—that is until you get stuck in a rainstorm. In bad weather ...

The NHTSA recall report indicates that the wiper motor itself is not necessarily faulty, but "the motor's cover terminal may have been misaligned with the brush card terminal." The report doesn't go ...

Need a powerful electric motor on the cheap? [Daniel Simu] and his friend [Werner] show us the ins and outs of using windshield wiper motors. Through many examples and disassembled components, the duo ...

Ford Motor Co. is recalling 604,533 vehicles in the United States because the windshield wiper motor may fail, reducing visibility and increasing the risk of a crash, the National Highway Traffic ...

My '68 Chevy C10 is being resurrected as a parts chaser/shop truck that is likely to be driven in any kind of weather. The truck isn't going to have a flashy paintjob or billet wheels, but it is my ...

Need a powerful electric motor on the cheap? [Daniel Simu] and his friend [Werner] show us the ins and outs of using windshield wiper motors. Through many examples and disassembled components, the duo ...