Anyone ever see the wiper motor do this before?

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arse_sidewards
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Anyone ever see the wiper motor do this before?

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So I pulled apart my non-working wiper motor to re-grease it when replacing the already burned out motor (turns out the switch was also F-ed up and in retrospect I should have just bout a $120 reman) and I found that all the grease had turned to something thicker than pumkin pie but thinner than skippy peanut butter. I took the heat gun to the grease from the '97 gearbox that donated the motor and it liquefied so the heat wasn't what done it.

Anyone seen this before?

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Re: Anyone ever see the wiper motor do this before?

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Yeah, I've heard of it and been told that's why the windows in these cars slows down. I need to pull all the windows, clean the tracks in the regulator, regrease, and reinstall the windows.
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