wiper door and headlight door problem
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wiper door and headlight door problem
I getting ready for my car to be inspected. so I start up my 71 and turn on the wipers, nothing. Weird these worked the last time I turned them on. Also tried the override.
So I manually open the wiper door. Wipers come on.
So I turn on the headlights, bulbs light up doors open about a 1/2 inch. Weird, some time they require a tiny bit of help, so I help them.
Now Headlights wont go down, and wiper door stays up.
What would cause both to not work?
I can leave them both up and pass inspection, but I would rather have them working.
I will be out in the garage playing with these today.
Any thoughts?
Oh yea,
Everything for wiper system is new. Changed everything last year.
So I manually open the wiper door. Wipers come on.
So I turn on the headlights, bulbs light up doors open about a 1/2 inch. Weird, some time they require a tiny bit of help, so I help them.
Now Headlights wont go down, and wiper door stays up.
What would cause both to not work?
I can leave them both up and pass inspection, but I would rather have them working.
I will be out in the garage playing with these today.
Any thoughts?
Oh yea,
Everything for wiper system is new. Changed everything last year.
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From: Middle Tennessee
From your description of the symptoms, it sounds as though you have a big enough leak to where you should be able to hear it. If you have a piece of vacuum line laying around, you can use it like a stethoscope to help locate vacuum leaks.
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so I checked the vaccum at the manifold, checked the check valves, ok.
Going into vaccum tank about 50, in the green. When I get down around the headlights about 20.
It's almost like the actuator is frozen open.
I disconnected all of the vacum lines going to actuator relays. and tried to lightly push down on the headlight casing, and it's like it is in a locked position.
Wiper door.
Same thing, I noticed the wiper may not be pushng down on the safty switch, but when I park the wiper all the way down, it still does not close by it self. When the door is closed and I turn on the switch nothing, but when I open the door the wipers work fine.
Does anyone know what size the nut is holding the eggcrate on is? I removed the screws on the outside, but could harldly see the nut and there is little room to manover to get the thing off. I thought I could check all of the hoses coming off the tank. Is this a waste of my time?
Going into vaccum tank about 50, in the green. When I get down around the headlights about 20.
It's almost like the actuator is frozen open.
I disconnected all of the vacum lines going to actuator relays. and tried to lightly push down on the headlight casing, and it's like it is in a locked position.
Wiper door.
Same thing, I noticed the wiper may not be pushng down on the safty switch, but when I park the wiper all the way down, it still does not close by it self. When the door is closed and I turn on the switch nothing, but when I open the door the wipers work fine.
Does anyone know what size the nut is holding the eggcrate on is? I removed the screws on the outside, but could harldly see the nut and there is little room to manover to get the thing off. I thought I could check all of the hoses coming off the tank. Is this a waste of my time?
