Any ideas guys? Is there a way to diassemble it to brush the shaft clean? Could it be brazed back together without cooking the seals? Are there even seals in there? Or am I reduced to having to buy a replacement pivot assembly? I really dont want to do that...

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i had that same problem. have to remove the wiper arm, then remove the
linkage from under the dash, then remove the nuts holding the pivot.
remove the pivot . on top of pivot has rubber bushing seal, if remove that
maybe can soak it in oil then try moving shaft around to free it.

Im glad this topic got brought up. The bushing that goes around the motor arm to wiper arm is toast so my wiper arm doesnt stay connected to the motor. What can i do to solve this pesky senario?

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74W100/6,
If you are talking about the nylon bushing where the two linkage arms connect, they are available at any parts store with a "HELP" section of miscellaneous parts. To make installation easier, soften them up in hot water and press them through the hole with pliers. Before snapping in the pivot, fill the hole with a dollop of white lithium grease. You might as well do all of them while you are at it.

Jerry

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This is what I ended up doing, I was changing my oil at the same time as well so I placed the whole assembly in the used oil, let it sit until the oil cooled down, and started to work it back and forth with a couple adjustables until it worked free. Then I flushed it in the parts washer, blew it dry with compressed air, soaked it in Boeshield chain wax, wiped off the excess, and reinstalled it with new seals. The kit included some grease zerks which I could have drilled the housing for, but didnt. If it seizes again I might, but with the chain wax I doubt it will. So far so good!

A tip for installing the black foam washer over the shaft head:

This really helped me, the black seal has a very small hole that is difficult to work over the wiper shaft head, dare I say impossible, but what I did is I grabbed my magic marker (the kind with an aluminum body) and after soaking the foam down with silicone oil, inserted the tip of the marker through the hole... the marker shell ramps up to the same diameter as the wiper shaft head quite nicely, so once I slid it up to the end, I was able to butt the marker against the shaft head and just slide the foam seal across. It is a dense open-cell urethane seal and is quite stiff, I would have made hash out of it if Id had to try and work it on without the marker.

No suggestions for getting the drivers wiper shaft out, it was very close quarters up there! I did unbolt the fuse block and mash it out of the way and that gave a little more room. But damn!

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