wiper system

Now this proved to be quite a fiddly and time consuming job to get these to sit right along with the windscreen fillet (then again i should be use to this by now).

once the screen was in place, i opened up the indentations on the scuttle where the wiper arms have to pass through and did the same to the 2 raised parts on the windscreen fillet, to allow the bushes to pass through which then screw down onto the arm mounts to hold every thing in place.

once i had decided on my position for the wiper motor i drilled that off and affixed it to the scuttle with 2 m6 stainless dome bolts, and large washers each side to spread the load, once bolted up, and in placed i could then set about bending the pipe that carries the wiper wire that operates the arms, i did this by hand and roughly bent it into location to where i thought the first wiper arm would go, it was then a case of having to joggle every thing into position, i found that the center pipe that links the 2 wiper arms together was about 8 mm to long meaning that they wouldnt line up with the holes on the fillet, so this was cut down, the next problem i found was that westfield give you some angled cut bits of rubber that act as sandwich pieces between the fillet and scuttle were both to long and had been cut at the wrong angle, so with my trusty Stanley knife i set about trimming these into the right shape, and my goodness did they need a lot of cutting, the fillet wouldn't sit correct until i had nearly trimmed them all away.

my biggest tip is to just be patient with this bit, even more with the fillet, as it can be quite tricky bending it to fit between the pillars, now mine had to go in and out a few times, so a little of the gel coat got chipped off the sides, but luckily this is hidden.