source for wipers and wipers arms?

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source for wipers and wipers arms?

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Greetings;

Just wandering if anyone has already done the research on the wipers for the 3 rd series GTE.
My first problem is with the passenger side wiper arm. The gear shaft sheared off and got fused to the inside of the wiper arm housing. This has the symptom of the gear turning, but the wiper being stationary on the windshield. Question nr. 1. If I do not want to take apart the wrong stuff, how do I get to swap the wiper gear? Underthe dash? How painful?
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Wiper gear (nos replacement)

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Original wiper arm with the pot metal gear sheared off inside it

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Question nr. 2 has to with what is stock when it comes to wiper arms. Mine currently terminate in a flat piece with a metal "dot" (it goes into the spring loaded slot and a hole receives it, locking it in place)

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To confuse things further, the wiper arm on the passenger side has a permanent mount (wiper arm and blade come together)

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I did buy some supposedly original replacement wiper arms from a vendor on ebay, and they do have the first type of mount (metal dot). I think the name was anro, from what I can read in the tiny font.

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Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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On my 1967 330 GT, my wiper arms have the little round button on the end for the blades- both sides. I just got NOS blades for it from RE-Originals. Give them a try,

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Hi Luke,

First, look at http://www.parrotbyte.com/kbc/ferrari/wipermotor.htm. That will give you a basic idea of what I did to solve almost the same problem.

I'm assuming that the GTE wiper mechanism is about the same as the 330. I would first try to remove the splined shaft head from the arm. If you can do that in one piece, you should be able to put it back on the shaft and then put a pin through it like I did. Just make sure that you get the pin towards the top so it doesn't hit the housing like my first try.

If that doesn't work, you'll have to replace the wheel box. It comes out from under the dash, but you have to take out the wiper motor to extract the cable. Then you have to disconnect the two tubes that the cable goes in. Then you can remove the wheel box. I found that the rubber that goes around the housing and isolates it from the body made removal and re-installation of the wheel box quite difficult. It's a tight fit and the rubber absorbs any force like tapping with a hammer. Now you can see why I suggest pinning the head back onto the shaft. That's a pretty simple process that's done without taking anything apart!

Good luck.
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Reoriginals has them for $125 for the wiper arm and $80 for the blade. They have both the bayonnet and the J hook design (I have both on my car right now).
There has got to be a cross reference !
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I have a late series 3 car mostly very much stock original imported by Jim Campbell of FAF and stored since 1978. Both wiper arms have the flat wiper arms with wire framed ARCO wiper blades
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Thanks !
I guess your blades were sold at an ARCO gas stattion (owned by BP).

I found a blade that works and the cross reference is a 70s Jeep Cj 5.

If someone has a part number of a wiper blade, made by a contemporary company, please post it. CJ 5 blades will have to do for now...
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BTW, I was able to get the broken part out of my wiper arm. I then drilled 2 holes that lined up in the splined shaft head and one more in the shaft itself. The pin was a heavy duty nail that I cut to size. It seems to work ! The pin was inserted just above the place where the shaft widens.
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as silly as it is to anwer one's own questions, here is what I found. Perhaps someone can benefit:
For my arms, the ones with a curled end a "dot" that snaps into place, I was able to find that Trico (11-6) wiper blades worked fine. With the exception of a metal brace that stiffens things up they look very similar to the factory ones in the photos of delivered cars. Not exact, but functional. Certianly better than the old blade that was scratching up my glass. I bought mine at Kragen's in California.
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I got this note from a 330 GT owner on wiper arms and blades replacements:

"I found a good solution for 330 windshield wiper arms if you are interested. MGB/C - GT arms from 1968-72 fit and look fine. They are available from Victoria British and cost about $100 for a pair of arms and 13 inch blades. The part numbers are 9-9713 for the blades and 18-604 for the arms. The arms are adjustable in length and this feature allows you to just slide out the 7mm wide stainless part and reverse it so the arms have the proper 'crank'."

The Trico classic blades look quite good on mid-60s cars:
http://www.tricoproducts.com/Trico2/rep ... aspx?ID=30
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Lukek: You might reconsider the "heavy duty nail" as a pin substitute, pins are engineered so if something jams, it fails and preserves the rest of the mechanism. A heavy duty nail might be the last to break when you may want it to be the first. M
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None of the many photos on the first post seem to display! They would seem invaluable to a discussion. What's up
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None of the many photos on the first post seem to display! They would seem invaluable to a discussion.
I think they are too old. A while back the site was updated and it was no longer able to display photos that were posted before that. I think that Tom or Josh can fix that on a photo by photo basis. What do you think guys?
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The problem is that the hosting source (http://www.guigui.com/cars/new.jpg for example) no longer has the pictures on it.
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Unfortunately they aren't in the web.archive.org wayback machine either, so there's nothing I can do.
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