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Title: None Synchronizing wipers
Post by: nitehawk on December 05, 2023, 07:17:30 pm
Our '89 GV has two separate motors for the windshield wiper blades. They do not synchronize wipe like modern vehicles.
Drives me a little nuts when this happens and it isn't a long trip to drive me totally crazy (the DW says), so I wonder if anyone ever resolved this issue  and now has synchronized wipers on the old coaches.
Title: Re: None Synchronizing wipers
Post by: red tractor on December 05, 2023, 08:53:48 pm
I am not aware of that being done. I would think that would have to be someone with a lot of knowledge about 12 volt motors.
Title: Re: None Synchronizing wipers
Post by: kb0zke on December 05, 2023, 09:52:54 pm
Hmmm, it has been several years since I had to mess with a wiper motor on a car, but it seems to me that the last one I dealt with had only one motor that drove both wipers. If you look at the larger vehicles (trucks and busses) they all have two motors, one for each wiper. I think you will just have to live with having two motors unless you have lots of money to invent something new.
Title: Re: None Synchronizing wipers
Post by: oldguy on December 05, 2023, 09:58:01 pm
I've never heard of 2 motors being synchronized.
Title: Re: None Synchronizing wipers
Post by: Bob & Sue on December 06, 2023, 12:45:45 pm
Ours is a two motor set up and synchronized to start and stop together.  Having said that, the PO had replaced the drivers wiper and shared that it was a pain to get the wiring right.  It's not a simple two wire set up.  As i recall anyway, it's been a while since I've been in that area of the coach.  I can tell you that they travel right to left together and stop and start together but one lingers at the stop start position a little longer but then travels just a bit faster across the window .... Not perfect but close enough.
    For us we try to avoid driving at nite and rain anyway.
Title: Re: None Synchronizing wipers
Post by: Phranko on December 07, 2023, 01:02:35 pm
Our GV wipers were never quite in sync.