Mine is late a Heerey 9registered Aug 71) and it came with a rod change set up, to be honest in Historic racing they know loads about Elans, Healeys etc but my GTM is the first to race in the HSCC so they will not really know what is what!
G

Any body know what wiper arms fit Coupe's, I think the original donor was ford Zephyr, not the sort of thing to find on the front shelf at Halfords these days
John

A deafening silence out there?? somebody must know what wiper arms fit, or I have to machine the splined end off the the exiting shaft to fit something Japanese
John

Hi John

you have a PM

StevieB

I have recently altered mine. I had some weird universal arm that fitted poorly and when it broke I looked into something else.

So I have a Mini setup as a single arm.

I changed the wheel box for a tapered spline unit to suit my new wiper.

I currently have a BMW E46 compact rear wiper fitted, It has a nice strong spring so should not lift. It is dead straight and I think I fitted a 15 inch blade. It ended up being identical in size to my last one but being dead straight it sits great on the screen.

I think Ken555 used a micra wiper arm

Neil

Hmm think I could be visiting the scrap yard with my measuring stick If here in Kano I will wait till after the rain season has finished next month, crappy places at the best of times, knee deep in oily mud is not a joke
John

NISSAN MICRA K11E 1993 TO 2001 REAR WIPER ARM

You will find a few Japanese cars use the same spline size as the old Austin/Morris/BL/BMC/Triumph/ lol setups

Cheers Ken, rather than get myself into the scrapyard crud I'll send one of the company mechanics to get crappy, one of the management perks
John

That is a useful bit of info about the splines.

One of the reasons I went BMW, Is I have a compact and saw the arm was spot on the same length as my GTM one . Also being on a tapered wheel box it means it has a nut holding it on too. I have has the clip on type come off before now.

Neil

I've had the clip on ones fly away, but if it is something I don't have to make I'm going the easy route
John

Has anybody had a cover for a Coupe, or knows of a small cover that fits fairly well I'm not bothered about tailor made, I can't try it on for size outside the shop like some of you lot can
John

I think Tim used a smart roadster cover.

Neil

I have, but it's a custom made one

Hmm Smart roadster is a good idea, or somebody would have to lend me their car to get measured up for a custom made jobby
John

With apologies, can I jump back to an earlier posting? Was very interested to read about West's wiper arrangement.
I too wanted to use a tapered spline and had various MGF bits to hand but it uses push rods rather than a wheelbox and rack. I have bodged an old Jaguar rack, a Land Rover wheelbox and welded the tapered MGF splined shaft onto the cut down Rover shaft. It is not very elegant. West, does your wheelbox work with a flexible rack, like Land Rovers, classic Minis, etc, or is it more complicated than that? I was aiming for 1 wiper so it would have to sweep way beyond 90 degrees.