The wiper transmission bushings finally showed up from the Great White North. There's a guy up in Canada (Silvain Mopar) who makes the brass bushings for the early Mopar wiper levers. They are expensive ($60) for the four bushings and the two steel tools you need to expand and crimp them into place, but he is the only game in town, and they are perfect replacements.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/203005565534
You have to grind out the edge of the existing bushing (after marking which way it goes in, so you can match it properly for the install position) and then you place the new bushing in the hole and either use a hammer on the crimping stamps or the press. You press with the #1 tool first and the follow it up with the #2 tool which properly expands and the crimps over the edge to retain it in place.
You can see how worn out the brass bushings were in the first photo. The bushing was completely ovaled out.
The new bushings worked great although it took a few tries to get the arms in the right order once I took it all apart to get the hubs bolted in to place under the cowl. (Ignore the lower bar position in the last photo - it's installed backwards in this photo. The square end should be connected to the pivot, not the round end).
10-11-2020, 11:36 PM
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