I would think it's the grease in the wheelboxes and the motor gearbox
having congealed over the decades. Take them all apart and you'll
probably find a substance resembling dirty beeswax. Clean and lube and
you'll probably be right as rain (so to speak).
Neil Cotty had this to say:
>Hi all,
>
>My Wipers hardly work at all. With only one connected say driver side, it
>works, but both together just lock up and freeze unless you give the
>windscreen a whack and that doesn't work all the time which can be VERY
>dangerous considering the weather we've been having here lately. It just
>seems they don't have enough power to move across the screen and they have
>never worked unless the windscreen is wet, which makes it interesting
>getting a pink slip for registration!
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Cheers,
>Neil.
>
>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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