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I Know My Kickdown Problems Are Solved!

Bruzilla

Bruzilla

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I made my final adjustment to my kickdown cable setup last night, and was about to take the beeper out for a test drive, and it started raining. I got in, warmed up the engine, got ready to back out, turned on the wipers.... and nothing. The wipers that had never given me an ounce of trouble in five years are now not working.

So as per the usual, which is the moment I get one issue fixed something else breaks, I know without the test drive that the kickdown is right where it needs to be. :(
 
Bummer dude! Your not having the best of luck.
Look on the bright side, pretty soon there will be nothing else that can go wrong.
 
Plastic bushing failure on the drive link maybe?
 
Hope it's something simple like the linkage arm falling off but at least this time it should be easy regardless.
 
Bruzilla said:
I made my final adjustment to my kickdown cable setup last night, and was about to take the beeper out for a test drive, and it started raining. I got in, warmed up the engine, got ready to back out, turned on the wipers.... and nothing. The wipers that had never given me an ounce of trouble in five years are now not working.

So as per the usual, which is the moment I get one issue fixed something else breaks, I know without the test drive that the kickdown is right where it needs to be. :(
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You did have the wiper arms on the knurled parts, right??!!!! Always have to check,lol.
 
Here is the secret....always leave one issue unresolved. Everything else will still work. If you fix that last little thing something else will break. My speedo doesn't work...that is my fee to the car gods lol.

Maybe loose wire on the bulkhead connector?
 
Un-freaking-believable! True doh moment. I checked the wipers, and there's several feet of wire wrapped around the motor arm, and it's knocked off the main drive arm! The wire was from when I was wiring in the Accel Super Coil and electric choke. I had some left over and I guess I left it on the windshield or cowl, and somehow it got down into the wiper motor area, and when I used the wipers the other day it got pulled in. How exactly it happened I have no idea, but that's the cause of the problem.
 
khryslerkid said:
Better check your driveshaft too!
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Seems to be working. I put the pieces back together the way I thought they should go, and turned the wipers on. They cycled three times before the whole thing fell apart as I'm missing the clip that holds the parts to the motor shaft. I'll stop by Lowes today and get some C clips and that should fix it.
 
Bruzilla said:
Seems to be working. I put the pieces back together the way I thought they should go, and turned the wipers on. They cycled three times before the whole thing fell apart as I'm missing the clip that holds the parts to the motor shaft. I'll stop by Lowes today and get some C clips and that should fix it.
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Sorry Bru, I was trying to make a funny.

You have the craziest luck sometimes!
 
khryslerkid said:
Better check your driveshaft too!
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The driveshaft was chapter 7 or so of this long, sad, story. The original driveshaft disappeared at the shop where my engine was supposed to get worked on. I never did get it back. I opted to use the shaft from the 1973 Town & Country I used as a doner car for the drivetrain, but it was too long and I needed to have it shortened.

I went to the shop and they cut it down... but they cut about 2" too much and it was too short. They had to make a whole new driveshaft for me, so hopefully that's the last of my driveshaft issues. But, I'm still kicking around the idea of modifying an aluminum driveshaft from a 92-97 Ford Police Interceptor for use in the Roadrunner, so there's still hope for a failure. :)
 
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