Cleaned up 7 years of road grime on front of frame. before and after
I got motivated recently. What started as a horn replacement and investigation into sporadic headlamp wiper and non-functioning headlamp washer pump turned into full fledged make over. The bumper came off, both headlamps came out and I went at it with Simple Green degreaser and a plastic bristled brush (that I would never think about using on the exterior finish...). Ended up replacing a wiper motor which fixed both the wiper and pump problem. Completely removed washer fluid reservoir and cleaned it up, too, and replaced pump seal grommets. It's looking pretty good now.
RE: Cleaned up 7 years of road grime on front of frame. before and after
It's amazing what a little soap & water will do! [:D] Thanks in advance for motivating me to wipe down the engine area more often. -LOL- I use to have the BMW dealership steam-clean the engine compartment every year. Think I'll find out what the MB dealership charges...
You should have seen the garage floor when I was done. What a mess. The nice thing is that the previous owner had done a pretty good job putting down a nice smooth epoxy floor so most of the crud swept up nicely after drying.
Wow! What a difference. It looks great. I'm not sure I could get that motivated. I know my wife would be thrilled if I spent that much time out in the garage to clean the non-visible parts of the car[:p].
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1995 S600, 1 of 618 (sold)
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haha. She was out of town on business for a couple weeks. Only way
I could get away with it! I would say she was underwhelmed when I showed her my handiwork. She'll me more impressed when I get around to fixing the rear window that won't go down all the way.
The "fix" was replacement of the wiper motor with a new one. I couldn't
figure it out. So, I ponied up the $200 for a new one. The electronics that control it are deeper than I could get into. What was frustrating at first was that the fluid pump also didn't work, but when I pulled it out a put 12 volts to it, it pumped fine. So I put it back in and fully hooked up the headlamps and wipers and got nothing from the pump. But, one wiper worked and the other did not. When I put in the new wiper motor, everything worked fine, pump and wipers.
When I watched the whole system working, I noticed that it's all synchronized. That is the headlamp fluid pump only pumps fluid as the wipers sweep across the headlamp. So the wipers have to be working properly for the pump to be working properly. There are electrical connections between all the components and if one fails, others fail to work, too.
I took the old motor apart, but not being educated on the system design, I'm not able to find out why it failed to work properly. Mechanically, it was fine as far as I could tell. I did find that I can put 12 volts across various combinations of the electrical contacts at the connector and get it to run, but I don't understand the circuit design and don't know why it wouldn't work when hooked up to the car.
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