Vacuum or Electric Wipers?

Looking for a windshield, and I know that since my CJ is a '61, the wipers should be on top (correct me if I'm wrong), but I was wondering whether to use vacuum or electric wipers, I'm thinking of going electric so I can have wipers without worrying about speed, etc. Ideas?

 

If you want to be period correct.. then the vacuum motors is what you want. If you want to see, get the electrics.

I have the vacuums, leave a lot to be desired, especially looking for blades and arms. Plus one (drivers side) works and one is shot.

I am going to get one electric, and put it where the drivers one is, that one I will move over and use on the passenger side. they are like 40 bucks apiece when you can find them. The vacuum ones are worth about a hundred bucks or so.:hurrican:

 

Well, I'ld like to get the marine style ones , but I have no idea where to begin looking for them.R)

 

the electric units work for rain, with lot's of rainX use included. Look at converting to CJ5 linkage type wipers for mud, and ad a defroster for winter snow and ice.

 

I don't understand things now a days. If you go out and buy a fancy car like a BMW or somthing, you pay extra for a set of windshield wipers that sense the speed of the car and automiaticly adjust the speed of the wipers to match the car speed. 50 years ago JEEP came out with the same thing with vacume wipers. You start up a hill and slow down and the wipers auto slow down, you reach the top and start down the hill and pick up speed and the wipers speed up. And all this was for free, no extra charge, just standard equipment. Seems like a no brainer to me on what to get.
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I used 1970 componets an have top mounted wipers with factory parts. they only mod besides drilling holes was to lengthen the long arm about 3/4". I just welded a 516" nut to one half and a matching 1" long bolt to the other piece. to get the arms and blades, I took the old arms/blades and the new pivots to flaps and played stump the counterman.

 

"As I remember it", Vaseline was the preferred lube. You want to keep the leather swipe pliable and it will soak up some lube and swell a little. You also get a better seal between housing and leather as it sweeps back and forth. Cold weather thickens wheel bearing grease to much and you get drag. Like I said, as I remember it from back in the day when I rebuilt mine.

 

I have never found any electric wipers that have enough travel to park out of the way. For this reason, I use a vacuum on the drivers side and a hand crank on the passenger.

 

Actually, being in Phoenix, where I can ride my Vstar 1100 all year round, Ice and Snow just doesn't seem to be much of an issue.

Unless of course you are talking about the Weathers twins from down the street aways...

 

I prefer the vacuum on the drivers side, hand crank on the passenger side. I haven't found any electric ones that have enough of an arc to allow them to park out of the way. They arent great performers but for the amount I use them it's OK.

 

http://www.aeiokla.com/pc-84-4-wwf-wiper-motors.aspx

I have two American Bosch that the PO had bought and never installed. I am not sure which model I have from the above link, but they work great. They bolt right in to the existing holes (at least the ones I had). Just another option.

 

how did you wire these? i have the bosch wiper motors. i'm not sure if they were original or installed by PO. the wire colors on what i have don't seem to agree with any of the descriptions i've seen on the web. both are already wired together and i'm just trying to connect them to a switch that was never there when i purchased the jeep. the wires that were supposedly hooked up to a switch are 2 pnk/wht, 1 brown, and 1 blue. i haven't looked closely at how the PO wired the two motors together. where do those wires connect to on the switch? i just bought a 3 position switch with 4 terminals.

 

This worked so good i was amazed. Just did the passenger side, and now cant wait to do the other one. Vaseline in a wiper motor, Couldnt believe it. Thanks for all the tips

 

Hand crank is the way to go.. move snow, mud, tree limbs, whatever.

 

Until you have to steer, shift, and work the wipers at the same time

There is a coolness factor of the vacuum or hand crank wipers though.