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should come with them.. mine did.. came with about 3 or 4 inserts.
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I really appreciate this forum, because I can search it for whatever restoration project I am involved with on my M756A2. My truck came with no windshield wipers at all, and only one wiper nut, which was not useful. So, I ordered a set of new wiper arms and blades. I have found installation notes very useful, so here are mine.
When I went to install my new arms and blades right away one of the 2 brass nuts that hold the wiper arm stripped out. So, I ordered another nut, and got my magnifiers to see what was going on. I found the threads on both wiper arm shafts were completely buggered, so I took a wire wheel to both shafts, which happened to have layers of paint in them, and I dressed the threads on both shafts the best I could with a small triangular file. I then ran a 10-32 NF die over both threads. I did it by hand because I did not want to run the risk of damaging what little thread was left. I then rotated the shafts fully counter clockwise with pliers against the wiper shaft below the splines
I then tried to push the wiper arms on fully clockwise at the top of the window. I found the wiper arms would not just slide onto the splines that were already there on the shafts. I suspect that those splines are the product of press-fitting the wiper arms onto the shafts from previous installs. So, I rotated the new wiper arms until I could feel the splines mesh, then I pounded the wiper arm splines into place with a 1/8" short nipple, which fit around the shaft and seated well against the spline collar on the wiper arm. Then I screwed the new brass nuts into place with a 3/8" nut driver, torquing by feel, to avoid stripping them out. So far they work fine, and it only took me about a week to get the job done
If anyone has a better idea about installing new wiper arms on one of these old trucks, then I would like to hear it.
I am finding that working on a 45 year old surplus military vehicle is what retired people do before they are too old to sweat bullets on an old truck.
When I went to install my new arms and blades right away one of the 2 brass nuts that hold the wiper arm stripped out. So, I ordered another nut, and got my magnifiers to see what was going on. I found the threads on both wiper arm shafts were completely buggered, so I took a wire wheel to both shafts, which happened to have layers of paint in them, and I dressed the threads on both shafts the best I could with a small triangular file. I then ran a 10-32 NF die over both threads. I did it by hand because I did not want to run the risk of damaging what little thread was left. I then rotated the shafts fully counter clockwise with pliers against the wiper shaft below the splines
I then tried to push the wiper arms on fully clockwise at the top of the window. I found the wiper arms would not just slide onto the splines that were already there on the shafts. I suspect that those splines are the product of press-fitting the wiper arms onto the shafts from previous installs. So, I rotated the new wiper arms until I could feel the splines mesh, then I pounded the wiper arm splines into place with a 1/8" short nipple, which fit around the shaft and seated well against the spline collar on the wiper arm. Then I screwed the new brass nuts into place with a 3/8" nut driver, torquing by feel, to avoid stripping them out. So far they work fine, and it only took me about a week to get the job done
If anyone has a better idea about installing new wiper arms on one of these old trucks, then I would like to hear it.
I am finding that working on a 45 year old surplus military vehicle is what retired people do before they are too old to sweat bullets on an old truck.