Dug's 1959 Fleetside

[dug224]

Originally Posted by jaws61

For the wipers you can you a chevy 2000 or 90ish blazer rear wiper works, its what i used on my truck and if you check on youtube someones got a video of it working. Worked great on my truck but takes some playing...

Thanks! I wished I had run across this earlier. The first thing I did when I decided to attempt using a rear wiper motor was to grab one out a late model Trailblazer. Unfortunately, it has a 180 degree sweep and it apparently uses electronics from the T. B. BCM (body control module) to reverse the direction of the motor....which I didn't have. Here's the link to this guys YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJCN20p4jhM

Looks like a pretty straight forward mod and the sweep looks just about right. I'll be grabbing a fresh one when the time comes. Brand new on Ebay $40.

[rgunlock]

Good luck with the wiper motor install. Looks like if you post a final measurement of that bar the wiper linkage attaches to it could help a number of us out. Cover on the engine cleans things up nice!

[dug224]

Originally Posted by rgunlock

Good luck with the wiper motor install. Looks like if you post a final measurement of that bar the wiper linkage attaches to it could help a number of us out. Cover on the engine cleans things up nice!

Thanks...Will do.

[dug224]

After riding around the other day and realizing it was hotter in the cab than it was outside, I reached up and touched the inside of my black roof. Almost too hot to touch. Anyway, went to Lowes and picked up an $18 roll of Frost-King 1' x 15' roll of self adhesive foam and foil and covered it up. Seems to stick pretty good. Headed out later so I'll report on improvements, if any.