Before you junk your wiper motor......restore it.

[six-tee-nine]

Well Ive done it with succes. My idea about it was : what can i loose? If it goes south I'll buy a new one.
Every bit and part is held together with screws so you can actually pull it apart completety. My motor was a real danger to use in a car since the insulation of the elctric wires was competely gone (what was left of it fell of by touching it).

So I basically pulled it apart removed the grease (after 40 years it became asphalt) and renewed the wiring. no bearings inside, just bushings so thats easy too......
I wire wheel cleanded all the parts and gave them a new layer of paint (metallic silver for the housing and black for the bolts/clips/screws). The only part that actually costed money was the replating of the electric motor housing. IMO well worth it since it gives the part a "new look instead of the "oversprayed junk" look.

Since I'm not the 110% factory correct guy I did'nt use the exact same colorisation of the factory wires (used what came close that was on my shelf), and I used a modern type of plastic tube found in todays cars. But in my attemt to hide as much of the engine bay wiring as possible I will lead the wires trough the firewall right below the motor assy.
In my attempt to give the motor a little factory corectness I decided to put the dab of red paint on the wire connections of the park breaker swith. However That was a pain in the ass since the red paint I used kinda solved the silver paint undernaeth that I shot on the housing earlier. Luckily I let it drie out for over a week and the touched the red surface again with the same red without going over the silver again wich nicely covered the silver flakes that have loosened the first time........Maybe a tip : be certain to use water based red paint
Pictures are from what i started with to finished assembly.

http://
http://
http://
http://
http://
http://

[Back N Black]

Looks real good from here! 

[stripedelete]

Looks good.  What type of plating on the motor housing?

[tan top]

Looks real good from here! 

  nice work

[six-tee-nine]

Looks good.  What type of plating on the motor housing?

Well it's just plain zinc plating but altough the camera flash makes ik look more pale then it really is. It's a little more yellow'ish in real but however not as yellow colored as some exact factory restored ones i've seen.

[Chatt69chgr]

Looks pretty good.  The red paint over the parking brake switch is called glyptal and is available from GE Supply.  If someone wanted the correct cloth covered wire, I've found it while surfing the net.  A lot of the older cars used it in the 20's, 30's, and 40's and there are outfits that sell to this market.  Too bad the Mopar wiperman got out of the business.  He did a real nice job and was reasonable $$ wise.  I am going to try to do mine and need to find a place that I can send the cylindrical motor cover to for application of the yellow zinc chromate finish.  There must be some place that does it mail order.

[resq302]

What?  Jules got out of the wiper motor business?  I thought his business was still going strong from what I have seen on Moparts.

[stripedelete]

Looks good.  What type of plating on the motor housing?

Well it's just plain zinc plating but altough the camera flash makes ik look more pale then it really is. It's a little more yellow'ish in real but however not as yellow colored as some exact factory restored ones i've seen.

Thanks

[CDN72SE]

What?  Jules got out of the wiper motor business?  I thought his business was still going strong from what I have seen on Moparts.

Jules is still in business, there used to be a company called Mopar Essentials and I believe he used to be called the Wiperman, that mey be who stripedelete is speaking of?

[Chatt69chgr]

I forgot that jules did these too---i think he is still doing them---isn't he in california?  there was a guy in Canada, I believe in Windsor, that rebuilt wiper motors.  he had a real nice website with color pictures and good part number identifying info.  the, all of a sudden, he was gone.  Not sure what the circumstances were that caused him to leave the business.

[CDN72SE]

Jules is in Quebec, Canada.

[oldcarnut]

http://www.julesdaddio.com/wipermotors.html#_self
I think this is what your looking for.