RE: [ISTA] Mysterious Wiper Activation

["Merlino, Rich" <Rich.Merlino@Eclipsys.com>]

Here's a post from Moose about what he did to fix this problem.

HTH,

Rich Merlino
'93 Ty white/white
San Jose, CA 

From:     ZMooose@aol.com
Sent:     Friday, October 15, 1999 8:44 PM
To:  SyTy@syty.org
Subject:  [ISTA] Re: Wipers Start with Turn signal (Solution)

Moose here;
    Haa, the mysterious wiper wipe.
        It's not the turn signal lever, it's the switch way down deep
inside.

        I've cleaned this switch twice, but it's starting to cycle again.

        You've got to remove the steering wheel and the guts behind it along

with the wiring down the steering column.  It's a pain, but doable without 
special tools, well except one.
        I don't know the part number but it's a black square shaped housing 
with, um, about six wires.

        You might want to replace the lever anyway if the markings are 
rubbing off.

See Ya
Glendale, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Turgeon [mailto:syclone13@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 9:23 AM
> To: MATTHEW_RIDDLE@udlp.com; Paul Huizenga; syty@syty.org
> Subject: RE: [ISTA] Mysterious Wiper Activation
> 
> 
> has something to do with the switch in the stalk i believe... 
> go through the
> archives, i know it's been mentioned before
> 
> Ian Turgeon
> Sy #2424
> Orlando, Florida
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> > MATTHEW_RIDDLE@udlp.com
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> > To: Paul Huizenga; syty@syty.org
> > Subject: Re:[ISTA] Mysterious Wiper Activation
> >
> >
> > You are not alone, I have learned to live with this on my 
> Sy. I can almost
> > guarantee a swipe if a have my turn signals on and hit a bump.
> > Definitely a
> > short but I am not willing to perform open heart surgery on 
> my steering
> > column...
> >
> > Matt
> > Sy #2533
> >
> > ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> > Subject:    [ISTA] Mysterious Wiper Activation
> > Author: "Paul Huizenga" <agtsmith@san.rr.com>
> > Date:       5/31/00 11:02 PM
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced the same 
> strange windshield
> > wiper phenomenon I've got on my Sy... Seems that every so often,
> > when I use
> > my turn signals (left or right, doesn't seem to matter), 
> and occasionally
> > even when I do nothing, I get one pass of the wipers. It's 
> like I hit the
> > "mist" switch on the stalk, even though I know for a fact I
> > didn't (and it's
> > far too stiff to activate accidentally and not realize it). My
> > best guess is
> > that I've got a short in the steering column, but I haven't 
> been brave
> > enough to start digging around in there to see.
> >
> > Has anybody else solved this problem? I know this is a long 
> shot, but then
> > again, I just fixed my window motor using instructions from 
> a web page I
> > picked up while lurking here, so who knows? I'd rather not 
> reinvent the
> > wheel if this is something common that has a published solution.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > -Paul
> > Sy #1853
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