Wiper Motor Relocation
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Hello!

Just a quick question! Has anyone moved their wiper motor behind the bulkhead? If so, do you have any pictures? I've Just painted the bulkhead so if it involves more than drilling a hole or 2 I'm not that keen as this is a bit of an after-thought. I'm just trying to declutter my engine bay.

Cheers!

Graham H

I have in past, and a few on here have... i just put motor same place just inside of bulkhead.. then its just angling and threading windy bit thru

As Dave said.

Can be a pain to thread it through. Took a bit of work on mine and I had to shorten it.

how did you guys fasten it to the inside of the bulkhead? Did you have to disconnect the motor from the wiper 'rod' bit or will it go through as a complete assembly?

Take it apart, just slides off.

The opposite of how it is fitted now, but nut n bolt instead.

Thanks for the advice!

Cheers

Graham

Just remembered its easier to leave the inner wire and the first tube in the motor, thread it through from inside and then put all the other bits on.

Its pretty self explanatory though when you have all the bits in front of you.

while this is at it. i have a question about this to. i have a engine bay heater motor but now realize that the hole where the air tube goes trough sits where the wiper motor sits. ( aprox) could the whole system cope with a 30 degree extra bent so the motor lays down more? or would the inner cable brake to fast?

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Engine bay heater motor?

Yes eum... snail type? The heater is in the car but the motor to blow the air trough it sits in the engine bay.

Edited by Rammie2000 on 14th May, 2015.

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i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

Ah i see... so the matrix is in the car but fan in the bay?

Yup. Problem is that the tube going trough the bulkhead goes trough it on the right hand side. .. and that is the same location as where the wiper motor sits on lefthand drive cars. But if i can bend the engine some more awayit should be solved.

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

Yup. Problem is that the tube going trough the bulkhead goes trough it on the right hand side. .. and that is the same location as where the wiper motor sits on lefthand drive cars. But if i can bend the engine some more awayit should be solved.

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

I once saw a mini at Hudds Mini spares, and the motor was down right in the bottom of the passenger footwell? Fook knows how they had managed that.

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Sure that werent just a new motor just brought n thrown in the footwell

if i rember ill take a pic of mine i didnt shorten it or any of that jaz just bent the outer tube bu hand and drilled a 20 or so mm hole then made a quick sloppy bracket to mount it the hardes part was reaching up under the wheel arch and in behind the dash good thing ive got long arms