Thread: S1 80" Wiper Arm question

I cannot be certain about the wiper blade on the 80", but it would be almost certain that there was no stainless steel anywhere on the 80" - in the late forties stainless steel was an expensive and rare commodity, which had no place on motor vehicles. The wiper blades and arms off any Series vehicle can be fitted, but most will not be "correct", except in the sense that most 80"s still in use in the 1960s or 1970s would have been fitted with them.

The "period" blades had the actual rubber wiper consisting of half a dozen layers of very thin rubber clamped in a straight bit of folded metal, usually steel. The flexible, spring loaded, blades with moulded rubber strips were unheard of until curved windscreens first appeared in the mid fifties, and were only slowly adopted by those cars with flat windscreens, as they were much more expensive.

Originally Posted by jedwards

Gentlemen,
I took a look at my wiper system over the weekend and realised it was incomplete.
My wiper motor is a Lucas CW1 type, but I am missing the arm and blade. An online search shows a considerable range of slightly different Wiper motors, arms and blades, each seemingly slightly different.
The shaft on the motor is about 4.6mm in diameter.

Can anyone tell me the name or how to describe the wiper Arm I need to search for or even where I might find one? I prefer the stainless steel type so it blends in with the galvanised windscreen frame.

Finally, I believe the Series 1 were not fitted with the stainless steel parking frame.
Is that correct?

Many thanks
Jeff in Perth

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Wiper arms for 3/16" spindles are not that common. I have used anything I could adapt / make to fit etc.
The Lucas part no. for the blade is 277803. EB=Ebony black CP=Chromium plated. You're likely to pay through the nose if you insist on original parts.
As far as I know the parking bracket was not used on 80".
.W.

Originally Posted by jedwards

Gentlemen,
I took a look at my wiper system over the weekend and realised it was incomplete.
My wiper motor is a Lucas CW1 type, but I am missing the arm and blade. An online search shows a considerable range of slightly different Wiper motors, arms and blades, each seemingly slightly different.
The shaft on the motor is about 4.6mm in diameter.

Can anyone tell me the name or how to describe the wiper Arm I need to search for or even where I might find one? I prefer the stainless steel type so it blends in with the galvanised windscreen frame.

Finally, I believe the Series 1 were not fitted with the stainless steel parking frame.
Is that correct?

Many thanks
Jeff in Perth

i have them here they have a rubber tapered pin jim

Originally Posted by B.S.F.

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Wiper arms for 3/16" spindles are not that common. I have used anything I could adapt / make to fit etc.
The Lucas part no. for the blade is 277803. EB=Ebony black CP=Chromium plated. You're likely to pay through the nose if you insist on original parts.
As far as I know the parking bracket was not used on 80".
.W.

This is what I did on an 80"
I used a split piece of copper tubing as a reducer on a later arm of the correct length. (Some of the arms are adjustable.)
.W.

If you have a look at some of the company's web sites who sell wiper arms & blades for Hot Rods they have quite a few to select from. I bought mine at Toowoomba Swap from one of these suppliers .

This is what I am tying to connect to.
regards
JeffWiper Motor 2.jpgWiper motor1.jpg

Originally Posted by jedwards

This is what I am tying to connect to.
regards
JeffWiper Motor 2.jpgWiper motor1.jpg

yes thats triangler motor yes i have new blade and the rugger pin and the correct arm to original jim ps ring me on price and postage jimmm