thanks carl,

i know that the spring in ours in not in that position so i'll try that,

Cheers,

Tom.

well assembled the whole thing properly and dad fiddled around with the metal contacts that determine stop and park positions and it seems to be back to normall again. thanks for your help everyone, greatly appreciated.

Tom.

I just got my wipers out of the car and discovered that the shield the spring sets on is in pretty bad shape and the spring doesn't have the little tang on it so it can rest in the notch of the arm that connedcts to the drive spindle on the motor :mad: Does anyone know where you can buy those parts?

I tried to order the spring from my local Nissan dealer, they said it was NLA. I didnt try ordering the shield.

I lucked out and found a replacement spring in a Pick 'N Pull JY.

Let us know if you find a source

I went down to my local nissan dealer with the spring and shield after I spent about 30 minutes looking at the Z Car Microfiche CD and they came to the same conclusion that I did:disappoin Those two parts are not listed individually. They (Dealer) think that it comes with one of the linkage arms or the arm that connects directly to the motor. They are all available :surprised for what I thought was a reasonable cost. So...I went ahead and ordered all three arms for a total of about $72 USD. Should have them here next week! In the mean time I just bent a tab on the spring and cleaned and painted the arms and lubed it all up and put it back together and...it works better than it did beforeLOL LOL Albeit not as good as a new car but a whole lot better than it did. It looks like I will have a spare set of linkages but that is okay.

Someone else correct me if I am wrong, but I think the purpose of the spring is just to take out slack in the mechanism. I am saying this because the short arm on the motor just rotates 360 degrees and the spring only has one tab (after looking at Carls pictures he posted here in this thread) on it. It wouldn't have a way to do anything else? (This is why I am not an engineer!!!)

I ordered the short little Motor Connection Arm (the one that connects to the motor output shaft, and which connects to the Master Operating Rod from Chloe (MidwestZ) last year just before she disappeared. It arrived in a Nissan bag all by itself.

Let us know if the spring arrives with any of the parts you ordered.