A few minutes of wet weather 10 Countries action

[Boxofbits]

Hi all

just a segment of footage in our TR4a going towards The Netherlands on day 5 of the 10 Countries Run. 
 

The rain comes in and up very quickly up to storm force. I’m glad I fixed the two speed wipers!

Kevin

 

[Tim Hunt]

Impressive wiper performance in torrential rain Kevin. Remind me, did you retain the original 4A wiper motor when you fitted the new wheel boxes? I also note that at the extreme of travel the ends of both wiper blades slightly override the windscreen rubber. What gear wheel is fitted in the motor?

Tim

[Boxofbits]

Hi Tim

Yes that is with the standard Lucas DR3a two-speed motor.

It had previously slowed up prior to the new wheel boxes being fitted, but then I found the old wheel boxes were partially seized, especially the driver’s side. In fact  I was quite surprised that the rack wasn’t damaged by this as the motor was obviously shunting it against a fairly hefty resistance, but I re-used that also.

I also rectified the wiring configuration which previously meant I had no second (fastest) speed. If you look at the start of the video, the wiper blade on speed 1 does not quite touch the rubber in its down motion.

Only when we got into torrential rain on speed 2 did it touch the two extremes, which I’m quite happy with. The gear wheel btw is a standard 120 ‘ wheel. I believe the TR6 is 115 as standard. The only work I’ve done to the motor is to grease it and renew the phosphor-bronze bearing for the crank, which was elongated.

Did you finally fit a 14w motor or decide to revert to standard?

Kevin