Re assembling my '71 Z. Need help with wiring...

[Bambikiller240]

Never tried installation on a "sideways" Z. I just laid rags on the bottom of the well to protect the paint on my "right side up" Z.

Don't think I or anyone else was calling you or your methods dumb.

[EScanlon]

Hey, anyway you can get it in without damaging the car and that it works afterward, and that you are comfortable doing, works for me. The procedure you mention (putting the Z sideways), says you have the car on a rotisserie. Most people take the car off the rotisserie before they start installing wipers and wiring.

Now that you have the wiper mechanism and motor in, BEFORE you put on your wipers, first give it a test. Make sure that the wiper motor has PARKED and is in the proper position for the wipers. It has happened before that by attaching the wiper linkage to the motor AFTER it's installed on the car that it gets installed 180° off, which means that your wipers will first wipe accross your cowl and onto your hood before they come back and do it again....never wiping the windshield.

2¢

Enrique

[ZSaint]

You make a very good point about the wiper motor. I will definetely turn the wipers on and off before installing the wiper blades. I did that on another restoration I did in 2002. I turned the wipers on and they wiped the cowl and hood. It scared the heck out of me when it went the wrong way. No paint damage but it was touch and go!

I will take the Z off the rotisserie, soon. I am waiting for some help in getting in on the ground. I have a portable floor lift that we will use but we have to balance it very carefully in order to take the rotisserie off and out of the shop.

I am trying to put the windows and lock brackets in the doors. I have not done one of these for over 20 years. I read "the book" and the guys does not give me a sequence for putting the door together. I guess I will search this forum for advice. If I cannot find the info, I will check with the boys.

[Bambikiller240]

You make a very good point about the wiper motor. I will definetely turn the wipers on and off before installing the wiper blades. I did that on another restoration I did in 2002. I turned the wipers on and they wiped the cowl and hood. It scared the heck out of me when it went the wrong way. No paint damage but it was touch and go!

Enrique shared a good idea with me when I rebuilt my Wiper System last summer. Clip an old fashioned wooden clothes pin to the wiper pivot post when you are ready to test the wiper movement. They will illustrate the movement to ensure it is in the correct direction without (possibly) sacraficing your cowl and hood.

[ZSaint]

These Zguys are ingenious. What a great idea!