[marka]

Howdy,

Hey, so I apparently manhandled the wiper arms on our chevy venture a bit too much this morning clearing them of snow/ice. I stripped the splines out of the arm on the driver's side.

This caused much hilarity, as the driver's side arm is in front of the passenger side arm, which (when wipers were turned on) would then mount the driver's side arm and attempt to produce little baby wiper arms, without much in the way of good consequences... :-)

Anyway, I pulled the arm off, and used a pick to clean out the splines on the stud. The stud splines seems fine, btw.

Do I need to get a replacement wiper arm, or will the stud self form splines in the (soft, it seems) wiper arm? Other than "get it in the right place, dumbass" is there a method to align the wiper arms if I should reuse the old one? I don't recall seeing a keyed spline on the stud, but I also didn't finish cleaning out the metal from between the splines...

Anyone know?

Thanks!

Mark

[Ojustracing]

I get alot of the GM through the door with this issue. What we do here is clean the splines up on the linkage and use some red anerobic sealer on the taper part of the arm. Re-install and tighten the crap out of it. If it works your done if not it needs a wiper arm.
Was the Nut loose on the arm? Most of the time we find the nut loose, if it sliped just a few times you should be okay for re-install.

John