99 century wipers

[NC-car-guy]

My sister called today,  it's raining back home and her wipers on the century are hitting each other (wipers swing out from the center).  Can they be easily adjusted? 

[NTX5467]

Adjusted?  Everything's "click and click" rather than adjustable.  Has her car been subject to ice or snow so far, this year?  Reason I ask is that it could be that one of the wiper blades might have been stuck to the windshield, but the other one didn't.  The blade is designed to be the sacrificial part of that mechanism.  The splined end is kind of oval so it doesn't engage all of the splines on the stub shaft of the transmission part.  So, if you remove the blade from the splined shaft and see that it has smooth areas in the interface socket, that's what has happened.  No fix other than a new blade/wiper arm.

 

Is there "slack" in the two blades' otherwise perfectly synchronized action?  That would probably be the arms which attach to the wiper motor.  Sometimes, they are available individually,  other times, it's the whole linkage assembly w/stub shafts.  There could be some method to get the transmission arm assy attached to the wiper motor 'output" correctly?

 

NTX5467

[NC-car-guy]

No snow or ice there.   I'll have to look at it when I'm visiting for Christmas....

[JohnD1956]

Might be two different length blades required for that car. Check with any parts business for what is correct for each side.