97XJ Rear Wiper Motor

Advance Auto: Cardone Wiper Motor: Reman. Wiper Motor: Remanufactured; Rear Warranty: Lifetime Limited Warranty $86.96

AutoZone: CARDONE_REMAN 40-444 LLT $39.50 $86.99

It probably just has dirty contacts inside. Take it apart and clean it. (1)

Believe me Bill that's first place I went to. Problem is, XJ's depart the bone yard just as fast as they come in. There's a nice bone yard down in Hazelton, PA, but that's a 5 hour drive for me, and not worth it for just a wiper motor...yet anyways! :)

Thanks for the tip Doug. Can't hurt to try! :)

Thanks Bill. Going to try Dougs suggestion of taking it apart and see if contacts are dirty, before heading down to AA. Although one of the guys at AA has a set of stock rims he wants to sell. Decisions, decisions! LOL

Do you use electrical contact cleaner and dielectric grease on the connectors and a little lubricant on the rubber bushing?

All the ones I have ever seen are seized up where the shaft goes through the door. The motors are basically fine, but when they shaft seizes it can let the smoke out of them or just arc the brushes that a clean can fix.

Mike

I have never replaced one because 'all' the ones I have been able to find at the wreckers are seized in the same way. For inspection purposes, I remove the thing and put a nice pretty grommet in the hole and have never been asked about it....

On the ones that don't need inspection I just leave the squirter hose sticking out the hole. It is a great tailgater removal tool. ;-)

But yes, I have several tubes of dielectric grease kicking around and cleaner that I use everywhere.

Mike

billy ray wrote:

I've started cleaning and greasing any connectors, and all the grounds, I come across whenever I work on the Jeep. I'm not having any problems at the moment but I'm in the mode where I hope that I can prevent any corrosion related electrical problems from happening.

My neighbor gave me a can of the stuff they use on German cars. It works well but I am not looking forward to the day I have to buy another as it is almost $20 per can. I'll probably just go back to Permatex or whatever brand is on sale that day.

I'm not sure what advantages it offers for electrical connections other than it sets up clear and is not sticky so it doesn't attract dust.

I do that too and it works. I recently had a catastrophic failure of the rear lights in the CJ7 and the connections were fine but the sockets for the bulbs had crumbled to dust. The bulbs were literally laying in the bottom of the fixtures.

Mike

billy ray wrote:

Call them up, and ask them to ship it. I'm sure they take CC.