S1 WIPER MOTOR, SOURCE

[greymrj]

Wipers on my S1 were poor and wouldn't self cancel. Took the motor off, stripped it and found it damaged. On my car (1988) the wipers are crank operated rather than spiral wire. It appears from 'Steve Heath' that '88 was a change year but I have heard of a variety of systems being fitted. Anyway mine had an AC DELCO motor. A visit to my friendly factor (who is becoming an expert on TVR parts problems!) indicated that it may have been Vauxhall sourced. That looked promising at first but all the Vauxhall ones we could find were the opposite 'hand'. Time to visit the breakers (again!). Couldn't find any Vauxhall that fitted but a lucky break and I spotted a Peugeot 405 with the wiper motor hanging out. Same hand, same size, same fitting points! Made by Valeo and not identical but very close. Half a dozen 405's in the yard, all the same. £10 (Vauxhall quoted £110 +vat for a wiper motor!). See pics
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The spigots for mounting the crank are not quite identical and I had to be a little careful mounting it to ensure the crank arm cleared the mounting bolts but it was quite easy really. One word of warning though, the wires are not arranged in the same order. The correct connections are S1 wire blue/green goes to red on the wiper, black (earth) goes to black, green/pink goes to blue, red/green (permanent live) goes to white, brown/green goes to grey.
Now working perfectly (or at least, as well as TVR wipers can be expected to work!). Just as well as 'her' first drive was in the wet!