battery connection question

[President Camacho]

took my battery out a while ago and now the windshield wipers are working in the incorrect position. I would appreciate someone sending me a picture of what they have installed and I will shortly upload a picture of what I put in. I fear I may have installed the incorrectly.

 

[President Camacho]

 

[NDT]

Looks ok to me. What is the disconnected cable with yellow heat shrink?

 

[SETOYOTA]

Looks right to me

 

[President Camacho]

I have no idea what those two yellow cables are for so I disconnected them hoping the wipers would stop working but they're still working and going in the wrong direction. Scared I messed something up. Battery was the only thing I did... no other electrical work.

 

[NDT]

Can you define "wipers working in the wrong direction"? They wipe back and forth when you turn the knob.

 

[SETOYOTA]

Did you turn on the headlights? Start it up? The batts look fine to me.

 

[orgnal]

I have no idea what those two yellow cables are for so I disconnected them hoping the wipers would stop working but they're still working and going in the wrong direction. Scared I messed something up. Battery was the only thing I did... no other electrical work.

Are you sure you have not accidentally turned the wiper knob? Have you tried turning the wiper knob to see if can turn the wipers off?

McReddy

 

[President Camacho]

When I turn the wipers on they go up past the roof. Then they stop there and wiggle a little in pleasure of my failure.

I have not responded because I ran her a good deal. Headlights work fine with high and low beams.

Orgnl, I turned the wiper knob clockwise and the wiper blades went to heaven. Then I turned it off when I realized instead of seeing wipers go back and forth, they disappeared from view all together. They went up, looking from the cab - to the right - not left and then down but due right - the opposite direction in which a wiper should go. Turning the knob off did nothing because the wipers were affixed to the upward position in which they had become rested - in the 2 o'clock position (looking out from the cab). (11 o'clock if you viewed it head on from standing outside the vehicle looking at it head on). It reached this position by traveling in the opposite way it should.

 

[maa45069]

Send some pics of this please! do you have the stock wiper assembly? Thought it worked off of air pressure so shouldn't really have anything to do with your battery. I very well may be incorrect and im sure somebody will chime in to correct me lol

 

[maa45069]

Please ignore that post LMAO.... completely didn't see it was a HMMWV lol thought it was a deuce

 

[1 Patriot-of-many]

Please ignore that post LMAO.... completely didn't see it was a HMMWV lol thought it was a deuce

Thanks.....I thought some of my posts were ummmm crazy....

 

[1 Patriot-of-many]

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In that photo one of the yellow banded cables is touching a battery terminal looks like. Maybe you should attach the yellow banded cables as they originally were? Or at least get the one touching the battery terminal away from the terminal? If the wipers were working originally properly, I'm gonna guess that's your problem.

 

[President Camacho]

It wasn't touching but appears in the picture to do so. I think something is up with the electrical... there's no way it should be working backwards. It's like the system is wired backwards.

 

[1 Patriot-of-many]

Were the wipers working before properly? And were those yellow banded wires hooked up to the previous batteries? You need to give us a little more info please.

 

[Wire Fox]

When I turn the wipers on they go up past the roof. Then they stop there and wiggle a little in pleasure of my failure.

I have not responded because I ran her a good deal. Headlights work fine with high and low beams.

Orgnl, I turned the wiper knob clockwise and the wiper blades went to heaven. Then I turned it off when I realized instead of seeing wipers go back and forth, they disappeared from view all together. They went up, looking from the cab - to the right - not left and then down but due right - the opposite direction in which a wiper should go. Turning the knob off did nothing because the wipers were affixed to the upward position in which they had become rested - in the 2 o'clock position (looking out from the cab). (11 o'clock if you viewed it head on from standing outside the vehicle looking at it head on). It reached this position by traveling in the opposite way it should.

Does the rest of the HMMWV operate correctly? I'm not advocating that you try to run everything if you believe there's a major electrical fault, but in case you did, did everything else seem to operate fine? Just considering if you have a reverse polarity situation.

Otherwise, I'm thinking that you might have the wiper arms just slipping on the splined pivots. I've worked on a few GM cars that had wiper arms like to come free. You often don't realize how big of a difference being off by one spline will be, and once it's loose enough to slip, it will keep slipping until it gets worse and worse. I haven't torn down a HMMWV's linkage assembly, but the way it works on a late 90s-early 00s V-body, the wiper motor contineously spins in the same direction and a small "transmission" existed to connect the linkage rods to the wiper pivots and to help bring the wipers down into park position when you turned it off. Working like a locomotive steam engine, you had a linkage going around in a circle off the motor, but radius is only just large enough to make the pivot go back and forth, not complete a full revolution. If anything broke or loosened, that locomotive-style oscillation could "hop" and start working the opposite direction as intended. As well, on those GM cars, if you put the arm on in the wrong position, the car would quickly do weird crap like have the wiper blades stop in the up position instead of the down while running...yet still park it properly in the full down.

My hunch is that battery having been disconnected is a red herring and your real problem lies in something having broken or slipped in your wiper linkage of pivots. Consult

TM 9-2320-280-20-3

10-73. WINDSHIELD WIPER LINKAGE REPLACEMENT and
10-74. WINDSHIELD WIPER ARM PIVOT REPLACEMENT

and very carefully examine the pivots and linkage connection points.

 

[1 Patriot-of-many]

I recently replaced my wiper motor Wire fox.(fun job getting the linkage pin on after you buy a new one since you lost the old one when you just pried out the motor from the linkage arms cause you didn't realize the pin slides off the shaft slot) You're correct the motor turns in a continuous motion. It's possible the pin came off and the shafts came off the hexagon bushings or something to that effect also from the motor.
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[President Camacho]

Tagged and titled the Humvee today and just got back from the shooting range. Thanks for the great info you guys... have my weekend planned out for me now.