Non-E30 tech question: '91 Nissan pickup

[SpecM]

disco?

one of the weird things Josh says, like "rad"

[StereoInstaller1]

disco?

[Jand3rson]

if it is anything like the E30, you can just tighten the nut down more to press it onto the splines. That's what I did with mine, and they are working great now.

That was exactly the problem, I don't know why I didn't check that first. How often the simple solution will elude us.

I lifted the little covers over the splines, and both nuts were spun almost completely off of the splines. Tightened them back down, and disco!

[gearheadE30]

if it is anything like the E30, you can just tighten the nut down more to press it onto the splines. That's what I did with mine, and they are working great now.

[eyagel]

i have some extra arms. pm if interested, free just pay shipping

[SamE30e]

Upon closer inspection of the arms, I can see the little spindles that turn the arm turning back and forth inside where they mount to the arm. It seems like they aren't gripping the inside of the arm base to turn it.

Stripped. If you really don't care. Tack weld the arm to the spindle.

[SpecM]

Pull one off and check to see if the splines are stripped on the arm or on the shaft. Hopefully they are just stripped on the arm.

luckily, most of the time it is just the arm that strips. so much easer/cheaper to replace just the arm!

[AndrewBird]

Let me guess, turned the windshield wipers on to clear a bunch of snow off? Bad, bad idea. The weight from the snow stops the arms from moving and the motor keeps turning resulting in stripped splines.

Pull one off and check to see if the splines are stripped on the arm or on the shaft. Hopefully they are just stripped on the arm.

[Money$hit]

jb weld

[Farbin Kaiber]

^^ What he said, or you can cotter it and screw the output shafts up forever, or junkyard some new arms.

[SpecM]

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true

Joshie: you need new wiper arms, I see it happen all the time

[kamotors]

through

thanks

[Julien]

this happened to a landrover my dad had, the spindle inside the arm stripped out to we drilled a hole horizontally threw the wiper arm and spindle and then put a bolt threw it, it worked very well and it was basically invisible.

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[kamotors]

this happened to a landrover my dad had, the spindle inside the arm stripped out to we drilled a hole horizontally through the wiper arm and spindle and then put a bolt through it, it worked very well and it was basically invisible.

[Jand3rson]

Upon closer inspection of the arms, I can see the little spindles that turn the arm turning back and forth inside where they mount to the arm. It seems like they aren't gripping the inside of the arm base to turn it.