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Aug 4, 2022 | 02:21 PM

Patrick88

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Windshield wiper issue

Hello,
I just raised windshield wiper arm too high in my 86 Corvette and small metal part which locks little spring in that arm just popped out. I found small piece of metal and it looks good. How do I fix it. Spring in arm is veeery strong... 🙁
Please help

Aug 5, 2022 | 08:58 AM

FostersPerformance

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Pull the wiper arm completely off from car. Set the parts on a bench and take a picture and post it.

Aug 5, 2022 | 03:49 PM

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Pull the wiper arm completely off from car. Set the parts on a bench and take a picture and post it.

I'll do it tomorrow morning. Thank you for respond

Aug 6, 2022 | 04:30 AM

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Like I wrote earlier, I have all parts intact, I think I need to make this center spring a little wider just for a while to fix this. How I can do it at home?

Aug 6, 2022 | 02:48 PM

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Did the spring fall off? Hard to tell.

Aug 6, 2022 | 03:51 PM

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Situation looks like this: originally spring is locked from 2 sides. From one side is locked by removable metal piece which I removed by opening arm too high. That pin looks good. I think a I can fix this but I need to stretch out spring just little a bit, but it's very hard... 🙁

Feb 6, 2023 | 12:29 PM

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Were you able to get back on?

Feb 6, 2023 | 12:54 PM

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Yes I managed to do it with help of my dear wife and about 20-30 thin but hard small metal parts (you need steel, alumininium is too flexible). We put them into spring "curves", some popped out obviously, so we were fighting about 3 hours. Then having spring enlarged, it was a lot easier to lock it from both sides in arm and put whole arm back to windshield. If you want more details I can give you more advices.