<VV> Wipers, was: English> hardtop thread

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In a message dated 9/23/2004 6:57:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
airvair@richnet.net writes:

My dad  once had a '54 Chevy with the standard stovebolt 6, powerslide, 
and vacuum  wipers. Talk about a deadly combination! It was the kind of 
car that you  had to stand on the gas to pull away from the curb. VW 
beetles could blow  its doors off. It only had two throttle positions, 
idle and floorboard. In  a rainstorm, the way you got anywhere was to 
stand on the gas til you  couldn't see anymore, then let off so the 
wipers would beat furiously,  then stand on it some more, etc.
 
The General had a solution for that...
 
The 2 stage fuel pump. One side pumped fuel, the other was a vacuum  booster. 
I had one
of these on my 54 Chevy Pickup and with the wiper motor not worn to death  
the wipers
were very steady and reliable in all conditions. Including having the  "pedal 
to the metal."
 
Most folks wouldn't spend the extra money to replace it in kind if it  
failed. The cost was 
considerably more. That and the fact that once they began to wear the  motors 
became
very inefficient is the reason the Feds made auto manufacturers stop using  
them.



He loved the car so much that he made me drive it to college. I  hated 
it. Took me a couple of months to scrape up enough to go buy my  first 
Corvair, so maybe it served its purpose.
 
It's said that God works in mysterious ways



BTW VW's ran the wipers off the spare tire air pressure.  Bazzare!
 
It wasn't the wipers themselves. They used spare tire pressure to operate  
the windshield
WASHERS.
 
Clean your windshield....   Have a flat.... WALK!
 
Great system

 
Tim  Abney



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