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Old Jul 24, 2019 | 09:10 PM
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Having windshield wiper problem on my 69. So I turn on wipers and nothing happens. Fuse is good,wiper motor works on bench test. It looks like I have no power to the motor, when I hook up my test light to hot wire before the safety switch nothing.
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Having windshield wiper problem on my 69. So I turn on wipers and nothing happens. Fuse is good,wiper motor works on bench test. It looks like I have no power to the motor, when I hook up my test light to hot wire before the safety switch nothing.
Thanks for you help
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Have you tried turning the wiper override switch ****? It's right below the steering column and sometimes it gets jarred when you enter/exit car.
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thats exactly what happened to mine climbing under the dash for an unrelated problem. I painted a line on mine so I could see if it was on or off. Just being moved a 1/16" can cause it not to work on my vehicle

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thats exactly what happened to mine climbing under the dash for an unrelated problem. I painted a line on mine so I could see if it was on or off. Just being moved a 1/16" can cause it not to work on my vehicle
Me as well-i consider that **** to be a Jerry rig that somehow got through to production. I would rather have an on-off button but I suppose the time to produce that was not available in the rush to fix 68 production issues..
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I have been working on corvettes for ~50 years and did not think of that. Thanks to all I will let yoy know.
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Me as well-i consider that **** to be a Jerry rig that somehow got through to production. I would rather have an on-off button but I suppose the time to produce that was not available in the rush to fix 68 production issues..
I was thinking of just replacing it with a new style toggle
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Sometimes we get lucky and the simple answer works. The switch was stuck in the off setting, I used a tool to move it and off they went.
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