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 Dasdubber
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 posted on June 4th, 2004 at 12:13 PM |
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12V 2-speed wipers??
I have a 63 bodied beetle that will be running 12V system. For engineers approval (and for user-friendliness) I'd like to run two speed 12V
wipers.
Does anyone have any links to a site with such a conversion, or have pics/advice on how to achieve this?
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alan
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| posted on June 4th, 2004 at 12:43 PM |
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Allan-haven't done my Oval yet but have done a 356SC Porsche 12 volt conversion.The original set up looked similar to a beetle,but the motor sits on
the opposite side of the mounting frame, but used a motor from a 73 Beetle.Modded the attaching brackets and cut and shut the crank arm to use all the
Porsche control arms.Had to re key the crank to the motor shaft to get the arms in the correct park position.Looking at my job I think it will be a
lot easier.Will probably try to adapt an early Valiant 2 speed switch so I can have the washers by pushing the knob in.Haven't spent any time on this
yet to adapt the early VW ivory knob.
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| posted on June 6th, 2004 at 07:17 AM |
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the Rob & Dave site had something about conversion of 6V to 12V
http://www.geocities.com/aussiebug1970/wiper1.html
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Andy
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| posted on June 6th, 2004 at 07:32 AM |
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Alan
just found this while trawling
http://www.aussieveedubbers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=7395
[Edited on 5-6-2004 by ghianutt]
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| posted on June 6th, 2004 at 09:40 AM |
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Thanks Ghianutt
I was thinking I was going to have to re-write the instructions.
:beer
Hope it all makes sense :alien
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| posted on June 6th, 2004 at 09:45 AM |
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isnt 68 12v, i think they have 12v but the motor looks similar to the 6volt, and has same length as 6v wiper mechanism
thats from memory anyway, some one corect me if iam wrong
i am preety sure that was what i ended up doing when i switched my 59 over
[Edited on 5-6-2004 by dak dak ute]
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| posted on June 6th, 2004 at 04:36 PM |
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I had a conversion already done on my 63 when i bought it. It was done by Vintage Vee dub. It basically has an extra knob with a variable resistor
(like a dimmer) which can vary the speed of the wipers in an infinite degrees in a range. The only bad thing about it is that when u set it to slow
it moves the wipers slow - i would like to try to make it pause between each wipe, but move the wipers quickly.
Jon
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 08:25 AM |
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Thanks for the info guys - will have a closer look at it soon (once the ragtop is done!).
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 08:39 AM |
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From memory I think Dave Birchall has done the conversion a different way all-together.
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 11:11 AM |
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I am about to do the same conversion to my Baja ('65 bug). My brother has done it before using a '68 12V wiper motor - can't remember all the
details at the mo' but I will ask him next time I see him (later in the week) - I think I remember him fitting the '68 wiper motor to an early wiper
frame, then having to extend the arm that attaches to the motor shaft so that the wipers had the correct travel....I'll check it out.
R
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