Leven Modified Wipers advice
Discussion
Considering fitting a set of these (new arms and all) as current ones getting tatty and the spray hoops are bent and blocked.
Read on a previous post (which I couldn't find just - the PH Search Engine seems to be having a rest-day) that it was necessary to start bending the new arms to get the correct blade postion on the screen, with risk of damage to the black paint finish.
As the kit is nearly £70 I am loath to buy something that might end up being damaged from judicious use of the molegrips & vice. Was this just an issue with earlier versions of the kit?
Does the kit come with new pipework to connect to the nozzle on the scuttle, as the current short lengths have perished and tend to blow off under the pressure.
Tvr_Nut
Read on a previous post (which I couldn't find just - the PH Search Engine seems to be having a rest-day) that it was necessary to start bending the new arms to get the correct blade postion on the screen, with risk of damage to the black paint finish.
As the kit is nearly £70 I am loath to buy something that might end up being damaged from judicious use of the molegrips & vice. Was this just an issue with earlier versions of the kit?
Does the kit come with new pipework to connect to the nozzle on the scuttle, as the current short lengths have perished and tend to blow off under the pressure.
Tvr_Nut
Had a long chat to Simon about bending the arms when I fitted mine as the spray nozzle actually made contact with the windscreen. It depends very much on your car - they are all different. Mine required a slight twist and bend on the n/s are to make it work properly. Best done with some tape and a pair of adjustable spanners, but even so, difficult to completely stop paint being damaged and a slight touch-up was required. New long pipes supplied but be careful to follow the instructions on threading them through the springs and don't cut them too short! Thread and photos on TVRCC
Alan
Alan
Mine didn't need bending ... but another tip for you ...
Rather than pushing the rubber tubing down through the spring, I chose to butcher the old spray bars, and canibalise them so that the I could take enough solid spray bar tubing to go through the spring.
It means that it is easier to thread though the spring, I have less rubber tubing to catch inthe wind.
The angle which the solid tubing comes out of the spring means I get a very neat tube to nipple bend that is hardly noticeable.
Effectgively the rubber tubing is cut where the arm meets the more substantial bracket, the solid tubing runs from there through the spring and out on the top side of the bracket area, and then the left over rubber tubing is used to go from there to the nipple.
I understand if you don't want to cut up your old washer bars, but unless you're going to flog them to someone else or have a real desire to keep the everything in case you want to make it original again, it seemed like a really good compromise to me.
The solid tubing also means that there is no restriction in the tubing through bending it and I get a very good powerful spray ... The outside one's do go off the screen, but that is when stationary, and I am sure at more than walking pace they will hit the screen.
Overall, excellent piece of kit.
Rather than pushing the rubber tubing down through the spring, I chose to butcher the old spray bars, and canibalise them so that the I could take enough solid spray bar tubing to go through the spring.
It means that it is easier to thread though the spring, I have less rubber tubing to catch inthe wind.
The angle which the solid tubing comes out of the spring means I get a very neat tube to nipple bend that is hardly noticeable.
Effectgively the rubber tubing is cut where the arm meets the more substantial bracket, the solid tubing runs from there through the spring and out on the top side of the bracket area, and then the left over rubber tubing is used to go from there to the nipple.
I understand if you don't want to cut up your old washer bars, but unless you're going to flog them to someone else or have a real desire to keep the everything in case you want to make it original again, it seemed like a really good compromise to me.
The solid tubing also means that there is no restriction in the tubing through bending it and I get a very good powerful spray ... The outside one's do go off the screen, but that is when stationary, and I am sure at more than walking pace they will hit the screen.
Overall, excellent piece of kit.
johno said:
Mine didn't need bending ... but another tip for you ...
Rather than pushing the rubber tubing down through the spring, I chose to butcher the old spray bars, and canibalise them so that the I could take enough solid spray bar tubing to go through the spring.
It means that it is easier to thread though the spring, I have less rubber tubing to catch inthe wind.
The angle which the solid tubing comes out of the spring means I get a very neat tube to nipple bend that is hardly noticeable.
Effectgively the rubber tubing is cut where the arm meets the more substantial bracket, the solid tubing runs from there through the spring and out on the top side of the bracket area, and then the left over rubber tubing is used to go from there to the nipple.
I understand if you don't want to cut up your old washer bars, but unless you're going to flog them to someone else or have a real desire to keep the everything in case you want to make it original again, it seemed like a really good compromise to me.
The solid tubing also means that there is no restriction in the tubing through bending it and I get a very good powerful spray ... The outside one's do go off the screen, but that is when stationary, and I am sure at more than walking pace they will hit the screen.
Overall, excellent piece of kit.
Thanks for the advice - the existing spray bars are not worthy of keeping/flogging, so no problems there. Think I get what you are explaining, and sure it will be a hundred times clearer when I am standing there looking at the bits.
TVR_Nut
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