1973 Dodge Monaco 2-Speed Wiper Motor

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My windshield wipers don’t work. 1st I would like to test the 2 speed wiper motor and assure that it works. The motor is pictured below. I haven’t gotten into the wiring. I just want to know if the motor works. I read the factory shop manual and it seemed that testing in the car was done with Chrysler equipment that I don’t have. Does anyone have a way that I can run jumper wires such that I could test to see whether the motor works? Thanks!
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The car you are helping. Drove to gas station today. Still chasing repair gremlins, but it was awfully nice to drive it and have it perform normally.
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See 73 Dodge Chassis manual Section 8 page 101- Two Speed Concealed motor testing. Service manual you have should give you the connector pin-outs.
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My windshield wipers don’t work. 1st I would like to test the 2 speed wiper motor and assure that it works. The motor is pictured below. I haven’t gotten into the wiring. I just want to know if the motor works. I read the factory shop manual and it seemed that testing in the car was done with Chrysler equipment that I don’t have. Does anyone have a way that I can run jumper wires such that I could test to see whether the motor works? Thanks!
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The car you are helping. Drove to gas station today. Still chasing repair gremlins, but it was awfully nice to drive it and have it perform normally.
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That is the most beautiful model fuselage Chrysler made in 1973. They almost never show up anymore. It would be great if you could share some more photos of it with us. What power plant does it have?
 
See 73 Dodge Chassis manual Section 8 page 101- Two Speed Concealed motor testing. Service manual you have should give you the connector pin-outs.
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Thanks, I found out the same thing. I was reading the Voltage testing section 2 pages ahead and didn't see the motor testing section. I believe mine is concealed. P2 has to be grounded, then spade L jumped so current crosses resistor to get low speed and H spade jumped to get high. Motor works in both speeds. Didn't get a chance to park the motor, but have some rewiring to do.
 
That is the most beautiful model fuselage Chrysler made in 1973. They almost never show up anymore. It would be great if you could share some more photos of it with us. What power plant does it have?
360V8 original, 727 not original, 8.25 rear.
Engine had 2 barrel. Installed Demon 1900 with Weiand 8007. Car has been a lot of work over the past 5 months. I'll take some photos and post them. I've been concentrating on making it roadworthy.
 
Was you Monaco a recent find and if so, where did it show up? Very rare to even find one anymore..............................in any condition.
 
Was you Monaco a recent find and if so, where did it show up? Very rare to even find one anymore..............................in any condition.
I bought it on Facebook in January. $6000. Had been sitting. Flew to Stockbridge, GA. Paid owner. Spent 2.5 days getting it to run enough to drive on a car trailer. Watched it drive on the trailer, flew home. Fixing problems since delivery. Driven maybe 70 miles since purchase.
 
Thank you for the followup. Hope you can share some photos in the near future. Given you have to fix a lot of things yet, does it have pretty high miles?
 
Windshield wiper switch has no continuity from Battery to any other spade, regardless of lever position. Switch passed rest of continuity test. Sent the switch and Hidden Headlight motor off for rebuild today.
B spade, lower left corner.
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Thank you for the followup. Hope you can share some photos in the near future. Given you have to fix a lot of things yet, does it have pretty high miles?
Probably 127000.
A lot of the work is undoing other people's short cuts/screw ups/ignorance. It doesn't take many miles for those to pile up. 5 months of work have gotten it close to roadworthy. That's a lot faster than some cars. I also have job, so that's not working all day, everyday.
 
Can't believe that car has a 2 speed wiper motor. That means it was ordered without the "basic" group, which most dealers put on just about every car on the lot.

What's essentially a triple white car, or at least as close to it as you could get on a non-Imperial in '73 is quite unusual too. We've only seen a few over the years.

Definitely a neat car. Would look good parked next to Steve's triple black '72 Polara.

Jeff
 
An update
Windshield Wiper Switch after rebuild
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Toggle switch with strange washer. Instrument panel is now apart. Toggle switch removed
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What it will look like with rebuilt switch after I put dash back together
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Ground/mounting plate
Before
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After a lot of hammering and bending and trial and error
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Current windshield wiper switch connector. 1-wire connected. Blue P1 wire burnt from switch connector to bulkhead connector
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Connector to be installed
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Instrument panel is still apart, but we're making progress
 
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