I pulled the old wiper motor off my car to clean up. Seems someone decided that spraying it black with a spray pack was a good idea...

One thing I do like about the old 70's stuff is it's serviceable meaning it can be pulled apart and put back together. I sent the alloy body away to be hydroblasted, the metal away for zinc plating and I cleaned up some of the screws.

A word of advice if you're looking to do the same, the rivets used to hold the bearing in the end of the rotor housing are alloy. When the housing was pickled before plating they dissolved and the bearing assembly fell out. Lukily the strong magnet it the housing held the parts in so they were not lost. If I did this again, I'd drill them out prior to plating.

The bearing was slightly melted and had to be ground out so the rotor would run smooth then I pop riveted the internals back in.

I had to drill out the alloy rivets used to hold the plug in place too, I replaced them with some M3x15 screws with nylon nuts and a pop rivet which worked well.

Anyhow the finished unit came up looking good!

I also picked up a tool kit from which I cleaned up

Got the boot and bonnet latches back from plating also.

Magnificent as usual mate

thanks for doin all the hard work first haha, now i know what todo

That's the idea

So it looks like I'm also after a rear left stainless trim piece. I called in this morning to drop in more stuff for plating and he showed me the part stripped of paint, full of bog. It can be fixed, but it's never going to be right.

Anyone got one they want to sell?

Edited March 22, 201311 yr by Adzmax

might have a spare that was with the other i got you, will check condition.

Awesome, let me know. Happy to pay.

found it, will post it sometime this week.

Legend. What bits did you need? Horn spring and something else? I'll send them up if you let me know, cheers!

Picked up some NOS number plate lamps. The lenses in these things are always dust so I'm pretty happy with this buy!

wow, so lucky to get these.

Got my steering wheel back from the upholsters today and it looks great! Pretty much every wheel I see is rusted so I decided to prep the metal and have Troy spray it, this way I never have to worry about rust again. I refitted the horn pad mounts and it's complete.