Foxbody - Hidden Wiper Motor Mod - Episode 17
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The pursuit of a clean engine bay and smooth firewall on #projectEgoBruise
Showing how I moved the wiper motor to inside my fender, to keep wiper function but get rid of the big ugly eyesore that is the WIPER MOTOR.
I give #FoxWerks "Doug Yeargan" IG: @90boostcoupe Full credit for this idea. Although I do not know any specific details on how Doug his mod like this, I know he made it possible, so this is my take on his great idea.
In the midst of shaving my r31s engine bay thinking there would be no way to hide my wiper motor and have it functional, then I find this video after 2mins of doing some research. Thank you so much for making this video, deserves so many more likes than it has
Sweet, you know, I never thought of it helping other vehicles. But, mist are setup the same way so why not! Appreciate the comment. Good luck on your build. Sweet car BTW! Super neat and super rare, at least in my area of the country.
Great idea to clean up the firewall
I’d use a heim joint to the motor
Yessir! A heim, is absolutely 100% the right fix for the rod to motor junction. I might even order one up. Would be quieter as well.
Wow Mike you made that look easy your fabrication skills are impressive!!
Appreciate that Carlos! There were hours of cussing, I get to edit out lol
Hahaha I'm sure there was but you know what I can't wait for the next episode!!!
That's so kool I'm definitely doing this!
nice, going to use this as inspiration!
I can’t believe I’m almost 50 yrs old and this the first time I’ve seen this mod. Badass!
Thanks man! Wish I came up with the concept (Doug Yeargan, FoxWerks did), but not my idea.
Very cool idea
Crazy cool mod now start making a bracket and rod kit for us lol
As little time as I have, and as little as Id sell, Id have to make 10 a year and sell them for 500 a pop lol
Bro that came out bad ass!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!
Appreciate that Tony!
Like all the progress of the car.
Thanks Chris! Cant wait for it to come together.
You could use a heim joint for the joint on the motor!
MAN I had to cut that part out. YES. The IDEAL solution here, no question, is a spherical heim joint.
Duuuude so glad to see this video. Right on time.
thats pretty slick. ive seen them mount the motor inside the cowl but this is a new one to me.
I've never seen this done. Very cool mod! Very thorough video! Nice job!
Sick mod! props to both you and Yeargan
So good, great job.
Apprecaite it! Love the content brother, love the black and gold car so much, keep up the professional work.
You keep bringing these game changers and letting the rest of us know what’s up.
Nice explanation with the "crappy diagram!" Great job!
Wow! Great job brother.
Great idea cleans up engine bay nice
What a great video!!! I would love to do this to my 85GT. Thanks for the detailed video, keep up the great work
Appreciate that Robert!
Cool stuff. Nice work!
AWESOME JOB!!!
Nice!!
🔥🔥👍🏽
Looks like I maybe keeping my wipers after all. shave my calypso coupe and the motor has to go . I plann to do this thanks so much for the video
I wonder if you could have connected the wiper motor to the driver wiper instead of making the long arm to the passenger side. OTOH, by connecting to the passenger side there is only a small change in push/pull angle of the rod, But if it was connected to the driver side there would be a lot more change in the angle and might put to much stress on the connection point?
Actually you could, and yes...the LONG arm causes some more vibrations and reverberations due to the length, but you dont want that arm TOO heavy. So, yes maybe could have swapped the pivot point. Just make sure the length from center of arm rotation to "pivot" rod is the same. This would effect wipe range if that makes sense...from park to full sweep would be altered.
Nice video quality , good mod!
Thanks, I feel like my quality in this one stuck too. My tripod broke, and Im waiting on replacement. So this entire vid was creative ways to prop up the camera. That and I had a bunch of parts with no sound...Always something
Is that the original wiper motor just fabled up or did you use a different one? Awesome work!
Thank you sir. Its the original one.
Another great video! Good job, Mike!!
Thanks man!
Why couldnt you readjust the wiper position on the mount at the windshield to compensate for the park position?
Because the motor is mid sweep. If you left it and just adjusted the wipers in park, your wipers would go halfway up the windshied and then halfway DOWN across your fender. Park has to be in a spot that pull the rod all the way to the stop towards the driver fender. This is true with this mod as well as factory setup. The issue is when you move the motor your changing this park spot about 45 degrees.
Awesome!
I need to get a welding machine. 🥽 I love your video uploads!!
Excellent video! I'm definitely using this mod since I'm building my 86 Notch right now!
AWESOME MOD!
Thx for sharing this but got a question couldn't you have just moved the wiper arms on the part that sticking up through the cowl where they would be in the down position without moving the arm on the motor
Yeah, I explain this in the video (diagram part). But it because the motor rotated 45 degrees putting the park is a 9 o'clock position, and needs to be in a 6 0'clock. You see when the arm furthest away from the windshied, pulling the rod to the max point towards driver, the wiper is in the lowest position on the windshield. When you rotate the motor the rod stops in a different spot, no matter the wiper itself, it stops in "MID WIPE" so, if you compensate and adjust the wiper, then when you turn it on it will half sweep up the windshield then half down the fender of the car!
Now that's slick good job.
what if you used a heim joint on the end that would probably be perfect or some sort of bearing
ABSOLUTELY. This is on my list, and I mention it in later videos. It needs a heim joint, would also take up any slop and allow adjustment.
I would totally buy this setup from you if you want to build another.
I dont have the time or space to be honest to do other cars man, Doug Yeargan of FoxWerks, hit him up, @90boostcoupe does this for customers all the time.
Same here
You guys just want the bracket I welded on and the triangulated bottom bracket?
@@HOUSEOFDULA yes
@@HOUSEOFDULA yes and the rod
That will be an awesome piece of the car when it's all done. You going to Ford Take Over
I have hopes of finishing this, and traveling to ponies in the smokeys, take over, the cruise in Detrot etc...
Why not just use a heim joint to allow a little bit of flex and get rid of your clunk?
Looks good have you tried modifying stock linkages so you
would be able to use the stock style end links and retainers.
So, I could have done this, ideally if you had a spare linkage, to join 2 together. But mine was missing the bushing anyway, so I just made my own.
Don't look like you can use hood hinges any more
I can, this is why the weird bend in the wiper arm. Had to test fit over and over..
Finally!
What communist gave this a thumbs down? Very cool mod.
HAha, someone else mentioned that. I have a hater, and it cracks me up, every video seconds after posting is thumbs down, before you could even watch the 25 minutes of it.
I could be wrong but couldn't you just hook the linkage extension up with the default park position and place the wiper arm on the splines at the correct position?
No sir. One would think. I did :) When the arm is fully extended, the wipers are in the most DOWN position, pulled away from the car. As the arm rotates 180 degrees, its in the full UP position. The issue when you move the motor, the PARK puts the range in mid-point. So if you just adjust the wiper arms on the splines, Soon as you turn it on the wipers will sweep halfway up the windshield, then halfway down onto your fender!
That 1 dislike is probably a camaro lover 😂😂😐
Always 1 dislike, and always within SECONDS of uploading hahaha. Cracks me up. There is 1 hater out there thumbs down even before he/she could even have a chance to watch it all. Every video. I actually think its funny.
Just watched the video - very cool mod I'll be doing but... Couldn't we just place the wiper arms at the park position seeing as the attachment points are splined without having to alter the motor??
You would think but no. I tried to explain this as well as I could starting at 11:25. It have to do with where the lever stop on the motor affecting the length of the rod, not the "clocked" location of the wipers. I "SHOULD" have demonstrated this in the video but instead tried to explain it. No matter where you mount / clock the wipers the issue if if you dont change the motor "park" position, the motor stops / parks with he wipers at mid point BECASUE we rotated the motor 45 degreed. Lets say you move the wipers to the bottom of the windshield...if you do that when you turn on the wipers they will sweep halfway UP the windshield, then start back down to your set park postion only to not stop and keep sweeping below the windshield and down onto your fender! lol It took me watching this happen before it made sense.
Only one problem. The left wiper only makes it into half of your field of view looking out the windshield when your in the drivers seat.
Yeah, it just needs adjusted, you can see when it stops I have the wiper a little too low, needs to come up about 2 notches.
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Great job. That’s a project I always wondered about. Now I know how I’d tackle it. Thanks brother. Does look like you could adjust the position of the drivers side arm up a ‘Skootch’ clockwise. Well done!!!
Yessir! Ha you noticed, yeah my driver needs to up a notch or two. You can see in the dust where at one point I had it up past its furthest point
will the arm clear the hood hinge?
Yessir. If you watch till the end, I mention this. I had to reform the rod because I forgot about the hood hinge! this is why the rod has that extreme angle to it.
Any thoughts on the hood hinges? I may have missed you address it in the video.
Yeah, there was so much to this, towards the end I mention I mad to bend the rod specifically to clean it. This is how the rod ended up looking like it did lol
But it clears the hinges fine
@@HOUSEOFDULA well great then!
So when it rains the water from the cowl drain will dump on wiper motor?
No, it runs through the stock channel still. If you notice I left the leading edge and didn't cut it down.
Sweet 👍
Do you know anyone that may have a non a/c heater blower motor resistor for a 1984 Mustang 5.0 5 speed. Thanks, Tom
Slick- sick mod! The only down side is if the wiper motor were to ever fail. Kinda difficult to replace but then again how often does that happen. Very good work 👍
I thought the same thing you never know I've seen brand new parts fail and if it does damn I'd hate to have to replace it when the car is complete
Any Idea what would cause your park position to shift? My 93 Foxbody when turned off, the wipers go to the lowest point then come back up about 2 inches. So it appears my park has shifted about 5-10 degrees past the original park position.
Yeah, I explain this in the video (diagram part). But it because the motor rotated 45 degrees putting the park is a 9 o'clock position, and needs to be in a 6 0'clock. You see when the arm furthest away from the windshied, pulling the rod to the max point towards driver, the wiper is in the lowest position on the windshield. When you rotate the motor the rod stops in a different spot, no matter the wiper itself, it stops in "MID WIPE" so, if you compensate and adjust the wiper, then when you turn it on it will half sweep up the windshield then half down the fender of the car!
Could you have used riv nuts to attach your bracket vice the plug weld?
Love the mod, but I guess you cant run the cruise control stuff then, since it mounts in that area? Also how will this affect a wire tuck?
No cruise on this car, but yes a factory car with cruise you have to lower the cruise canister to make room. This doesnt affect the tuck, in fact it helps because it brings that wiper motor out of the engine bay.
You could save yourself a lot of time by just re-clocking the wiper arms themselves. No mods needed to the motor drive arm and only takes a few minutes.
Nope. You would loose the fill sweep motion needed to clean the fill windshield.
Yeah. Doug is right. One would think that. This was the point of trying (my best) to explain the park position. If you just readjust the wiper, park spot is stopped what should be mid sweep, Readjust the wiper, it would travel halfway UP the windshield, then halfway down your fender.
How much for you this set up?
Free for me. I had all the steel, just a matter of fabbing it.
@@HOUSEOFDULA how much for you to make it for me? I can ship you the motor.
@@StreetEquus - Man I just dont have the time to reproduce this. Your the 1st of 3 to ask. I have a full time job, a dad, 3 cars and this car is taking every bit of my free time. But if in the north texas area, the guy that came up with this idea (doug yeargan) does it for customers cars.
@@HOUSEOFDULA I'm in NY