Lucas Wiper Motor

[timberstone]

Just received my Lucas wiper, in pieces, from a shop that ceased to do work on it while they were in the middle of rebuilding it. Have asked around to many places for another repair shop, but now I cannot find anyone that does these Lucas Wiper Motors anymore.

Will anybody please provide a reference, or link in these posts, to a description or illustrated manual about the internal mechanisms and wiring of the Lucas Wiper Motor and Gears as fitted to the TC?
Perhaps mostly even the internal wiring connections are all that I need.
Because the mechanics of the gears seem to be solvable enough that maybe I can handle that part of the job.
Octagonally Yours, Boxley (Robert and MGTC0820)

[Steve Simmons]

If you want to have it rebuilt, this guy still does it:

Jerry Felper
British Auto Electric
2722 East Carnival Ave
Anaheim, CA 92806
Tel: 714-630-1074

[frenchblatter]

Sometimes a good clean with petrol (several times) and relube with modern grease will get it working. The original grease will go rock hard and jam everything up.

[Tim Jackson]

This might help
https://ttypes.org/windscreen-wiper-motor-type-cwx/

[timberstone]

Thanks to you all above for posting comments about service for the Lucas Wiper Motor.
1. Good to know that there is still at least one service depot - Jerry Felper - where to send the wiper motor -- but "... does anyone else feel an anxiety these days about more and more of our specialist suppliers reaching an age where they might just pack it in one day?" (quoted in MG Experience from Benny in San Diego) This actually may have been the reason why my Wiper was returned in pieces from the previous shop.
2. Yes, the wiper can be resurrected, at least once, by performing a good cleaning -- and surely this must be done at least after a period of decades. However, there was more wrong with this wiper than just a cleaning could cure.
3. Eureka ! Thank you Tim Jackson for the link to the article in the MG T Society Newsletter Issue 21 from December 2013 regarding the "Windscreen Wiper Motor – Type CWX". This technical article showed an exploded diagram, along with a few photos of the insides and the wiring connections, with sufficient detail that perhaps now the repair and re-assembly job may be completed from here.
Good to know that there are "sacrificial pins" anchored in the spindle shaft that are intended to break when the wipers are jammed so that damage to the gears does not result. I may be able to perform such a fix of the pins.
-- Just hoping that I am able to finish this before I also "...might just pack it in one day."

[Steve Simmons]

The number of specialists shuttering their doors is indeed alarming. It's one factor that continuously drives me to learn these skills for myself. Not just because it will be difficult to find people to do jobs like this for me, but also because it will become expensive. For those of us on the younger side of the hobby, there is also the concern of internal combustion engines falling out of favor altogether. What will it take to get an engine block machined when everyone is driving electric vehicles?

[frenchblatter]

Steve, I reckon they petrol engine will be around for at least another 40 years and maybe longer. I wont!

[Steve Simmons]

I think so too, and I really hope so because I will be here too!