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retaining nut rear wiper motor - left or right handed?
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2016 11:39 am
by cooter
Hi folks.
The rear wiper motor on my 2003 Vibe is not burned out, but is moving slowly/erratically. From reading other threads on this subject, I'm hoping I can just clean up corrosion on the shaft to get things moving freely again.
Please see picture - is that retaining nut right handed or left handed? I can't get it off, and want to make sure I'm turning it the right direction.
Thanks.
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Re: retaining nut rear wiper motor - left or right handed?
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 10:42 am
by cooter
Bump.
Hoping that somebody that has removed the rear wiper motor can answer this question.
Re: retaining nut rear wiper motor - left or right handed?
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:48 pm
by Chiadog
Any chance you have a pull-n-pick junkyard nearby? Or maybe a GM / Toyota dealer to look at a wiper motor. I haven't taken one off, but I can't imagine the thread isn't right hand! The thread that holds the wiper on was R.H., correct? I can't remember the last L.H. thread I encountered, oh yeah, propane tank.
Re: retaining nut rear wiper motor - left or right handed?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 4:42 am
by cooter
Chiadog wrote:Any chance you have a pull-n-pick junkyard nearby? Or maybe a GM / Toyota dealer to look at a wiper motor. I haven't taken one off, but I can't imagine the thread isn't right hand! The thread that holds the wiper on was R.H., correct? I can't remember the last L.H. thread I encountered, oh yeah, propane tank.
There is a howto on this site (in another thread) for removing the motor, and it states that bolt
may be left handed. I found a video on youtube which states the same thing (although the vehicle in the video is not a vibe).
Re: retaining nut rear wiper motor - left or right handed?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:39 am
by star_deceiver
The pic posted above is of a right handed thread. The only place on any car that you might encounter a left hand thread would be on the crankshaft, camshaft, or flywheel; and even then every maintenance manual would state in large font that it was left hand.
Re: retaining nut rear wiper motor - left or right handed?
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:00 am
by cooter
star_deceiver wrote:The pic posted above is of a right handed thread. The only place on any car that you might encounter a left hand thread would be on the crankshaft, camshaft, or flywheel; and even then every maintenance manual would state in large font that it was left hand.
Are you looking at the exposed threads? If so, that is not the nut/thread I'm referring to.
Re: retaining nut rear wiper motor - left or right handed?
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:27 pm
by star_deceiver
Doesn't matter, you're not going to find it being left hand thread.
It may be rusted or galled up so soak it in some wd40, put a box end wrench on it and giv'er hell!
