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was driving home today with dusty mud over the rear windows, and was thinking that it would be good to have a wiper on the small door side as well, especially with a 35 on the back, cauz you cant see anything out of the large door side anyway. I was thinking a wiper that was vertical would be perfect. Has anybody done anything like that? Are wiper motors adjustable for the stroke, so you could get a motor from anywhere?

Thinking out loud

marin

marin wrote:was driving home today with dusty mud over the rear windows, and was thinking that it would be good to have a wiper on the small door side as well, especially with a 35 on the back, cauz you cant see anything out of the large door side anyway. I was thinking a wiper that was vertical would be perfect. Has anybody done anything like that? Are wiper motors adjustable for the stroke, so you could get a motor from anywhere?

Thinking out loud

marin

I was wondering if those rear airdam type things would help, like you see on the rear of the newer 4wds. They are supposed to flow the air over the window and stop the dust, like this:




I like as much vision through the back as possible, so I removed the rear brake light and fitted a LED one to the roof rack. I get a pic if you are interested.

i got a mav, no light on the door, also the airdam thingie is no good when the dust becomes mud, which is more what i'm thinking about. The wiper would need to be one of those 1's that has a parallel stroke to go across the small window.

marin

I think a water spray may be better than a wiper - as long at you hit it when the mud is wet. A wiper with be a big job to fit.

If you get a high pressure spray (lots of choice in irrigation sprays) that may be enough.

Then again, where is the dirt getting thown up from?

check some of the imports, but I do agree with you, fuckin sucks not seeing out of it.

I usually carry a 2ltr coke bottle with water in it for that window..gets messy but worth it

Cant you hook up an extension hose to your water fire extinguisher from inside the cab Marin?

EricB wrote:Cant you hook up an extension hose to your water fire extinguisher from inside the cab Marin?

not worth the effort, may as well get off my lazy arse if i was gona do it that way, and not worry about extention. Sounds like nobody has done the wiper thing.

marin

marin wrote:not worth the effort, may as well get off my lazy arse if i was gona do it that way, and not worry about extention. Sounds like nobody has done the wiper thing.

major pain in the arse since its not a wide window, finding one that would fit and wipe the actual window would be hardest.

What about a headlight one off an early Volvo, or even off the safari import?? would be a real Cookie to mount it up too, but if you did get it sorted and made a few kits I think you could sell em

what about one of an 80 series standard wagon??

mav wrote:what about one of an 80 series standard wagon??

i thought i remembered something about landcruisers having something that might have been suitable, but it was only an idea, so i didn't look into it.

marin