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[Shaun78]

Hi all I'm a new member here,I have a 1978 Australian moke I'm restoring,I have a question about wipers I have the the old system with a square motor and link rods but no wiper arms or blades,does anyone know what length they should be.thanks for any help.

[Spider]

The particular Arms and Blades that were originally fitted were very light and had a fixed flat blade - a very similar arrangement to the early Land Rovers. If memory serves, the blades were 10" and while available, they are quite obscure to find, I always found that because the blades were fixed in a flat shape, they were none too effective if there was the smallest of contaminants on the screen or in heavy rain, they were quite hopeless. I can't recall the length of the arms, but can check if this is what you would really like to fit.

I always took them off, for a while I was fitting Arms and Blades from Minis, while still quite light, have a spring loaded blade and a heavier spring on the arm, these made a big difference. Also, replacements rubbers for the blades are very common.

[Shaun78]

Thanks for the reply spider,I do have another wiper motor it came with a mini type wiper motor that uses the worm drive cable,also like the landrover system,would this be the better option to use.thanks.

[Spider]

The original spindles that the wiper arms mount to, have the same splining as the Minis (and a few other cars) have, so swapping arms is fairly straight forward.

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar enough with the Land Rover wipers to make a call on them in particular, however, I did always find the Moke set up with hard linkages better than the Cable rack system of the Mini.

[Shaun78]

Thanks for the info spider,I have a friend who buys and sells at auto jumbles and have some mini bits so will be paying him a visit and find some wiper arms.