Wipers assembled

This week had me working at the workbench, assembling the windshield wiper kit. It was particularly fun. It was pleasant to work inside the warmth of my laundry room, and sitting on a stool, instead of lying on the cold garage floor. The tasks were well defined in the manual--basically lots of measuring and cutting the aluminum tube that holds the cable that drives the wiper arms, flaring the ends so that they won't move when connected to the motor and arm mounts, and then putting it all together. In the end, I did a pretty good job, I think, on this part. Here are some pictures...






Next comes mounting that into the car, and the first thing to do there is cutting a couple of holes at a 45 degree angle into the fiberglass body. To get that right, I have to temporarily install the body onto the frame and the windshield as well. Unfortunately, the manual it is now decided amongst the other builders on the Hurricane forum, is wrong about the best place to locate the holes. Not the sort of thing that makes me feel warm and fuzzy. Anyway, I am stuck for now until I get a few people over to help lift the body off the buck and put it in place. I had hoped to do that this weekend, but a family friend suddenly passed away and made for some changing plans.