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George 3 months, 2 weeks ago.
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Anyone know how to bench test a wiper motor?
I am not sure exactly what happened but on my 2013 Fleetwood Storm class A, when using the wipers something went wacky with the passengers wiper running straight down wedging between the license and bumper, drivers side was straight up (as it should have been). I removed the wiper arms and checked the fuse. The gear in the arm is stripped. The washer pump works and is on the same fuse. Tried running the wipers and nothing… the motor didn’t operate. The fuse is still good so I am thinking it is the motor.
I attached some photos: wires to the motor are black, red, green, yellow and blue.
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Well, it wasn’t the wiper motor. Turns out it was a fuse; not THAT fuse, another one! I will describe briefly in case someone has a similar problem. I got both the schematic for the coach side (from Fleetwood) and from the chassis (Ford). The problem is that there is nothing that describes where the hookups between the two are on the rig. The coach fuse panel in under a velcro dash cover on the driver side and wiper fuse is 21; that fuse was ok. Which sent me to the chassis side (or so I thought). Ford has a couple “fuses” that restrict the over amperage delivered to the wiper (those were good). As it turned out there are some dangling fuses hanging on the end of some wires (connected to the Ford regulators) over by the battery that are not labeled (those are Fleetwood coach side). One of those was blown preventing power from going to the regulators and hence to the wiper controller under the dash by the break peddle(Ford chassis side).
As an aside, everyone was very helpful: Fleetwood sent a schematic and suggested that it sounded like a Ford problem. The Ford dealership gave me a schematic and quoted me a one hour diagnostic estimate which they honored in spite of it taking 3 hours too chase down. The whole thing was a rather expensive fuse replacement but I would have never thought to look at that dangling fuse.
Now my next adventure is getting the windshield replaced as it leaks like a sieve.
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