{"id":219,"date":"2009-12-29T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T01:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/?p=219"},"modified":"2009-12-29T19:45:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T01:45:49","slug":"fixing-my-2004-saturn-ion-winshield-wiper-linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/fixing-my-2004-saturn-ion-winshield-wiper-linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing My 2004 Saturn Ion Winshield Wiper Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a week ago, my driver-side windshield wiper starting behaving strangely.\u00a0 The wiper would move too far to the left and not always go back to its wiper-home when turned off.\u00a0 It also seemed to move in a delayed fashion when in comparison to the passenger-side wiper.\u00a0 When passengers asked about it, I compared it to a lazy eye.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, the wiper would clean the windshield for the most part, but it soon got worse.\u00a0 I came back to my childhood home for Christmas to visit my parents.\u00a0 As most parents would, my dad noticed the bad wiper and asked me why I didn’t fix it.\u00a0 As most single twenty-somethings would, I said I’d get around to it; after all, I could still see good enough to drive.\u00a0 In the meantime, my dad googled the problem and found several people who had the same problem.\u00a0 As it turns out, the windshield wiper linkage broke.\u00a0 Then can happen when you pull back the wipers off the windshield and reapply them without being careful.\u00a0 I usually pulled back my wipers when it snows to prevent them from sticking to the windshield and then just pushed them back, in which they would smack the windshield.\u00a0 I had good intentions, but poor execution; lesson learned.<\/p>\n

My dad and I began to take apart the windshield wiper apart.\u00a0 We confirmed the linkage was broken.\u00a0 We then used the instructions from here<\/a> to fix the problem.\u00a0 We fixed the problem by repairing the broken part with two metal pieces and some bolts.\u00a0 The repair worked and all is well!<\/p>\n

You can click on the pictures below for a larger view.<\/p>\n

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Broken linkage<\/p><\/div>\n

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Removed wiper motor from car<\/p><\/div>\n

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Brackets to repair the break<\/p><\/div>\n

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First hole drilled in the linkage for the repair<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fixed linkaged reinstalled in the car<\/p><\/div>\n

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About a week ago, my driver-side windshield wiper starting behaving strangely.\u00a0 The wiper would move too far to the left and not always go back to its wiper-home when turned off.\u00a0 It also seemed to move in a delayed fashion when in comparison to the passenger-side wiper.\u00a0 When passengers asked about it, I compared it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gergltd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}