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Rebuilding Trico windshield wiper motor


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I am attempting to rebuild a few KSB Trico motors. Has anyone successfully rebuilt a Trico wiper motor using a kit that the antique Ford parts guys sell?

I am particularay interested in forming the paddel seal. Being sure the leather folds into it's self.

There seems to be a problem where the paddel leather surrounds the shaft as well. I use the term leather loosly here.

I imagine the guys that do this professionally have a fixture for this.

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I don't know if this will help but this is the information I have saved for when I get ready to rebuild mine for my truck.

Yours kit is a different model, and vehicle but I believe the instructions for seating the leather paddle would be about the same.

Do you have any instructions with yours ? I know it seems like a dumb question but I can't tell from my end what you have that your looking at.

Take a look at this photo and see if the instructions help at least guide you in the right direction.

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Our wiper motors in principal are the same. My instructions are about the same as yours. Line 10 in your instructions is where we can get into trouble. I think Rob Ficken and other wiper rebuilders have some sort of fixture that insures the leather folds inward and is crimped properly around the shaft. I have about a dozen motors to rebuild.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I havn't found anything. It seems that maybe a block of aluminum milled out to accept the paddle horizontally, then soak it in oil for a week or so.

I am sure the guys that rebuild the vacuum motors have a trick, but they aint tellin.

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I took a couple of pix of the paddle and the replacement seals. The old seals seem to be leather and the replacements appear to me some sort of vinal.

The problem is folding the vinal seal edges in all the way around to make a perfect seal. Installing the kit is fairly intuitive, but the paddle seal is not.

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