michael_antoi

wiring wipers to a switch
is it possible to wire it to a switch with a 20A fuse in between?


I cant figure out why my wipers aren't working (fuse keeps blowing for some reason) and I dont have the time to figure it out. If it rains i cant drive and I need my car, is there any temporary fix for this at all?

Thanks for the help

2coupes

use rainx

instructor74

IMO it would be less work to find out where the short is in your wiring then to wire in some sort of bastard switch to operate them

Mistermark

if your fuse keeps blowing theres proly a short to ground somewhere in the circuit

miahmouse

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most likely...

The wiper motor could also be hosed... there's little contact arms that break off inside the motor, one of them could be flipped where it's not supposed to be...

silverboost

i had a swithc on my wipers, take out the plug on the steering column, find which two contacts make the wiper activate, salder two wires to a swicth and thats it

NikoZai

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by miahmouse &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">most likely...

The wiper motor could also be hosed... there's little contact arms that break off inside the motor, one of them could be flipped where it's not supposed to be...</TD></TR></TABLE>

This is likely. I would continuity check the positive wire at the wiper to ground, to see if it's somehow touching the chassis (broken wire somewhere)
If it doesn't have continuity, that's good, replace the motor.
If it does have continuity, you'll have to find out where that wire has broken and is touching chassis.

michael_antoi

ok well one reason may have been that a bolt was stuck where the wipers are and blocking one of the wipers from moving...jamming the motor and thats why i kept blowing the fuse.


but then after noticing the bolt was wedged in there, i removed it, however the fuse still continues to blow.

I checked each of the individual wires (in the engine bay) for the wiper motor to see if they are touching and I also cut the black wire and grounded it directly just to be sure, but that never fixed the problem