wiper motor

[Case]

My motor packed up, when I opened up the electrical bit the brushes and retainers fell out. I have bought a new/recon motor from Ware in Bristol. Should I replace the lot or swap the brushes over. I ask because I cant get the motor unscrewed from its mounting.

[mike.perry]

Replace the complete motor. If you mess around with it and it does not work then you have no guarrantee.
Hacksaw through the rubber mounts and replace them with new mounts.

[bmcecosse]

Easy to unscrew the motor - surely. Only 3 small nuts !

[Tamsin]

Easy to unscrew the motor - surely. Only 3 small nuts !

In sodding awkward places

Also, depends what year the car is - on the earlier ones, werent the wiper motors in behind the dash rather than in the engine bay??

[JOWETTJAVELIN]

Save the old motor, determine what's wrong with it and eventually get new brushes for it.

Personally I am a fan of 'make do and mend' and dislike buying new parts if the old one can be repaired to a good standard.

Keeping buying new complete parts rather than overhauling/patching up is getting on like modern cars.

[mike.perry]

They be may be small nuts but they rust just as well as big nuts

[JOWETTJAVELIN]

Get some penetrating oil on the nuts - WD40 or PlusGas. Early cars (splitscreen) had the wiper motor behind the driver's glovebox in the corner. Don't know about 948 cars but they have the same wiper sweep-style. Never understood why people call these 'clap hand' wipers because they don't actually touch each other.