Rear Windshield wiper probelm gone bad

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XJ Jeepin Girl

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I have no pictures, so this is gonna be kind of hard to explain, but I really need some advice. I was trying to replace this thing so that my rear windsheild wiper squirter thing would work. The rubber extension from the actual wiper was just hanging there and not connected to the car. So, if you ever tried the squirter, it just got it all over the back of the car. My dad bought me this $8 part that we needed to replace. Little did we know this would be a nightmare.

So, first you have to open the back hatch and take off the back panel. The panel is only held on by shitty little plastic pieces that either break or get stuck when you take it off. So, we started by breaking most of those off... Wonderful. Then, there's the brake light that faces out towards the back window that sits above the panel. We couldnt get the wires disconnected for that and the wires went through the panel, so I got hold up the panel and this light contraption. Then, underneath the panel is the motor for the wiper that makes the wiper move and gives you the fluid. So, we disconnected the motor because it was the only way to get to relace that part. And then my dad broke off the whole wiper arm. A $50 part, probably. And the wiper arm is connected to the whole motor back there. So, I get to replace that too, I'm assuming.

I haven't looked any of these parts up, but I'm assuming it's not cheap. Has anyone EVER in thier life tried to do what I just explained. It was so much harder than I thought it was going to be. So, now I am left with still no fluid AND no rear wiper arm and wiper. I would have fucking ducktaped the little tube and nozzel if I would have known. What would you suggest? Buy the stupid parts or live forever without a wiper?

:gonnablowRather distraught, Melissa
 
got the same problem with my xj,i just get out and clean the rear screen with a bit of rag when it gets muddy.
cheaper and a whole lot less stress.
 
Well, if your arm was actually broken off, like mine, you will have to replace the whole motor for it too. But, if it's just missing, then yeah.. the arm isn't that much. Gosh, this is gonna drive me crazy.
 
my Jeep has the tube for the rear wiper fluid, and all the necessary wiring, but no rear wiper. It's an old 91 sport. Anyone know how to hook this up? do I get plug the switch in and connect everything in the back? I'm wondering how I make fluis come out the back though. Do I have to do something under the hood too?

Go to a junk yard and get the whole assembly from a donor. Tell the guy at the counter you can buy one new on eBay for $15. he'll drop his pants on the price real fast. Trust me.
 
The rear arm is definitely replaceable. Depending on where/how its broken it could involve the motor too. From what you wrote I'm not clear. You said you disconnected the motor. Did your Dad just grab the arm from outside and wrestle it off?

I would check eBay, there seem to be a lot of used, and sometimes new, OEM XJ parts going for reasonable prices these days. It looks like Auto Parts Warehouse wants ~$80 for a new rear wiper motor.
 
Anyway you don't need to do anything but take the arm off, then the nut and then the plastic thing for the hose. Put the new one on, replace the nut and arm. No need to remove the back panel.
 
klonestar said:
Does the rear washer feed from the front tank?
Click to expand...

Yes it does. BTW, for anyone replacing the part for the broken tube, it's as easy as langer1 said, and I would suggest trying to pick up the rubber gasket that fits behind it because it is often dry rotted.
 
To answer some questions...

Yes, my dad did just kinda rip the whole arm off from the outside. What we should have done was push in this little pin to release the arm, but, it was very hard to see the pin from the angle we were looking at it from. So, I'm pretty sure that the motor will have to be replaced because the motor's arm (where the wiper arm goes on) got ripped off too, because we didn't push in that pin.

I think I'll look at junk yards or ebay, because I am not gonna pay $140 just so I can have wiper fluid, lol.
 
P/N 55000302, BEZEL, Wiper $3.16
P/N 36000423, HOSE $2.07
P/N 56000598, ARM, Wiper, w/Nozzle $30.59

http://www.allchryslerparts.com

Shipping and Handling is usually around $7.

The BEZEL, Wiper is the round item that goes around the shaft coming out of the back of the liftgate, it has the nipple for the hose.

Check your part numbers, those are for a '95 XJ.
 
It's too bad because there is nothing wrong with the actual motor other than that I can't get a wiper arm on there anymore because the bezel is broken off. Oh well. I'm thinking of buying a new one, cuz I'm going to try and convince my dad to pay for it.. He broke it afterall.. : /
 
Huh? Why couldn't you get a wiper on the shaft if the brezel is broken? Is it so mangled that its deformed and extending past the end of the shaft?

The Brezel is the round plastic cone-shaped piece on the surface of the liftgate, the shaft for the wiper arm extends thru it and then you mount the wiper arm on the shaft.

Sounds like you might have the brezel mixed up with something else.
 
Yeah, sorry. The bezel, I think, is the part we were originally trying to replace. The shaft from the motor where the arm goes got broken off. The end of the shaft is stuck inside the wiper arm because I didn't see the pin that you push in to release it.
 
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