Wiper Motor Plug Differences

[SimonTW]

My car is a 1984 model with the early plastic covered wiper motor and uses this plug
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8522/8451972201_0db6aaa512_z.jpg

I got a wiper motor of what I'm told is an E Reg Nova but the plug is different to mine.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8447428118_6f53b7f44a_z.jpg

Can anyone tell me what years I can get a wiper motor from that will be a direct plug in replacement without going for the early type again? :thumb:

[leefowler]

Only the early type will fit unless you change the plug.

Lee

[meritlover]

what does the '84 motor look like? is it the same construction with just a different moulded socket?

might be possble to swap the top covers which contain the postion/park brushes to save you changing the plugs?

[SimonTW]

You can just see it in the back ground.

Early type
http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1petrU_YrWItAe8_JLh68cvmJzsMVxXye64nsTPn-Wjh0Gdi3Rr8hiGR9w4DojK5DphkJgGkHSbXllhrQHFr9acg/P1050637.jpg

Type I have been sent
http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr359/EDDRODGERS/2012-05-10163544.jpg

[meritlover]

hard to tell without seeing whats under the black cover.

seems a shame to loose the look of the old motor thought. its likely toataly different as the bracket looks cast into the gearbox as apposed to a pressed frame.

if you didnt want to chop your plug and hash your OE loom, you could get a later type plug with a length of wires on it and crimp male spades on the end, connect this up like a conversion lead and tape the join up out the way further back where you wont see it.

you have little other options if you cant get the right motor.

[Edd]

You can get a adapter that is about 6inches long with early plug one end and late the other, vauxhall still have them last time I checked

[Edd]

Number 2 in the pic

http://ecat24.com/opel/catalog/part/1/14/569/2072/19703/

[meritlover]

at €37, i would just make one.

[Edd]

Crack on then, the cost of two looms to do so will be more that the adapter, I got mine for £12

[SimonTW]

Cheers Ed, that's great. There is nothing wrong with my wiper motor at all. It's in really good condition. I was going to whip it off and sell to someone needing a early one for a build and take a "undesirable" one in part ex. I'm not overly fussed about which one is fitted to it as long as it works so figured I'd make a few quid out of it.

[meritlover]

Crack on then, the cost of two looms to do so will be more that the adapter, I got mine for £12
an old plug and 4 crimps?

depends how quick you need it working i suppose.