How do you remove Marauder wiper blades. I tried with my hands & they don't budge. Tired a flathead screwdriver still nothing.
Is there a trick to it?
How do you remove Marauder wiper blades. I tried with my hands & they don't budge. Tired a flathead screwdriver still nothing.
Is there a trick to it?
Squish the tabs, then pull.
It's so simple, you're probably over thinking it!
Wish I had a picture to post, you'd smack yerself in the forehead after seeing it
It would depend on whether you have the factory originals or aftermarket blades, the original blades were rubber bonded to steel and you disconnect at the wiper arm itself.
Aftermarket as described above.
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We've got to make the distinction between "just changing the rubber strip" and changing the blade.
The blade includes all the springy bits after the arm itself, and just like other Ford products, you squeeze a release tab, then pull it off.
The whole wiper thing, it looks like it is attached to the arm with the whole arm pushed through the hole and it snaps into place. What tabs are there to push pull etc...?
I'll take a picture of it tomorrow and post it up.
Last edited by Aren Jay; 07-01-2007 at 07:44 PM.
To remove the whole arm assembly: Key on, wipers on,
key off when wipers hit top of sweep. Hood down,
grasp top of arm and pull away from windshield,
when it stops use small screwdriver to move tab to side.
The arm is now unlocked from the splined hub and locked
away from window. Grasp arm at the hub and wiggle and pull,
the arm won't rotate because of a key in the spline ( don't
lose the key, I super glue it before replacing arm on car).
With sufficient wiggle and pull it will come off. Once you have it off
you'll understand how the system works.
Hope this helps.
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This is one of my pet peeves about the Marauder. Most other vehicles have a hinge on the wiper arm so that it can be bent at a 90 degree angle while you replace the blades. But noooooo .... the Marauder arm can only be lifted a couple of inches before it makes contact with the hood. Changing the blades is a balancing act between having enough clearance to remove and install the blade and avoiding chiping the trailing edge of the hood.
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Pictures of the wipers and how they are attached to the arm.
How do they come apart? There are no noticable clips or tabs and they don't just pull off. Even tried with a screw driver and they don't come loose.
Those look like the older ones I had on a '92 MGM. Even my '98 has the easy clip ons. Anyway best bet would be to use a wide flat blade screwdriver placed between the wiper blade and the wiper arm itself and twist the screwdriver, it should pry it off.
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These aren't the original blades.
I forget what brand these are,
but I've used them at one point.
You need to get inside the joint, from above the blade,
and press on the spring inside.
You can use a tiny screwdriver for this.
Once the spring is pressed down 'a little', not a lot,
you should be able to feel the drag being released
and the pin will slide out.
The spring inside the joint is what is catching the groove
in the middle of the pin.
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I guess I should have waited.
I used my Vicegrip and pryed them off.
Tore the back side and springs all up but they came off. The wiper arms and sockets are fine. I put my new fancy Canadian Tire spring form ones on, but havn't had a chance to test them yet.
I have to clean the windshield too as I have black paint and metal shards every where.
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