On May 21, 10:42*pm, aemeijers wrote:
On 5/21/2011 9:29 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
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"The wipers on my 68 Javelin stop working."

"Check the fuel pump."

"The car runs fine...I said the wipers don't work."

"Check the fuel pump. There's a vacuum booster pump bolted to the top
of the fuel pump that powers the wipers. They can leak."

Okay, so Javelins were really 1959 Ramblers under the skin. But you
gotta admit, that first year Javelin sure was pretty. I did a real
double take going through a 73? or so Hornet hatch at a dealership- the
load floor cover over the spare tire was painted plywood- the company
was so broke by then they couldn't even afford tooling for a simple
almost-flat ridged metal panel.

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aem sends....

Back in the 70's, a friend and I drove a beat up Javelin from
Cleveland to NYC. It was pouring rain and halfway home the wipers
stopped working. They would go up when you slid the lever to On, but
wouldn't come back down unless you slid the lever to Off.

I was riding shotgun and had to keep turning the wipers on and off
with the lever. This went on for hours until the lever came off in my
hand. Luckily, they stopped in the up position and when we pulled over
we found that if we manually pulled the wipers down, they would go
back up by themselves.

We rummaged through the trunk and found a length of wire just long
enough reach the wiper from the passenger window. It was pouring and
cold and we ended up putting our socks on our hand so it didn't freeze
as we operated the wiper with the wire.

By the time we pulled into NYC, we were wet and dirty and had a memory
that we still laugh about to this day. That friend turned out to be my
best man many years later.