specialty wiper arms blades to order?

[Scott e]

Can anybody out there help me out on which arms and blades to order for my wiper kit I just got from Specialty Power windows
For the Coupe? i guess that I should get bent right arms, and blades for curved glass. Not sure how to measure for these.

[Rian_Colorado]

I have the same wiper kit, and went with some length and angle adjustable arms from Sea Dog. Kinda made for the boating world, but work well on the curved glass. I had to modify the length adjustment (cut some off of an arm length, then re-inserted). They have several different types and lengths Here are 2 examples

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sea-Dog-4...inch/655076464

https://sea-dog.com/groups/1920-adju...arm-hook-style

I know they had an 8" length arm somewhere too - can't find it at the moment. Drivers side blade worked out to be 15" I think? and Pass was 11". With those blades, the drivers side arm needed a slight angle adjustment in the arm, along with the length trimming I mentioned. The passengers side worked out fine with a straight arm. Both are "J-hook", and I preferred that as they're easy to get at most auto parts stores. Arms I went with are black powder coated stainless steel which I preferred as well.

One option.....I'm sure there are several others too

Rian

[burchfieldb]

Look on Paul's build starting at post 1126,https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/show...-Report/page29. I fould some wiper arms made by Autotex ,but they are backordered as of right now. You can get them on Grainger, but they are 50% more. I have not found any others yet that have the swivel head. I am also not sure if that is required.

https://getautotex.com/products/2007...22-8-11-radial

[burchfieldb]

I have the same wiper kit, and went with some length and angle adjustable arms from Sea Dog. Kinda made for the boating world, but work well on the curved glass. I had to modify the length adjustment (cut some off of an arm length, then re-inserted). They have several different types and lengths Here are 2 examples

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sea-Dog-4...inch/655076464

https://sea-dog.com/groups/1920-adju...arm-hook-style

I know they had an 8" length arm somewhere too - can't find it at the moment. Drivers side blade worked out to be 15" I think? and Pass was 11". With those blades, the drivers side arm needed a slight angle adjustment in the arm, along with the length trimming I mentioned. The passengers side worked out fine with a straight arm. Both are "J-hook", and I preferred that as they're easy to get at most auto parts stores. Arms I went with are black powder coated stainless steel which I preferred as well.

One option.....I'm sure there are several others too

Rian

Don't they need to be for 1/2" spline or 1/4" shafts?

Brent

[Rian_Colorado]

Some of their smaller products came with swappable head mounts (2 different spline attachments), but the rest came with the the correctly sized parts (1/2" spline) to mate up with the SPW wiper kit. Also, you can swap off the mounting head to the SPW kit if need be.

RR

[Rian_Colorado]

Some pics of the attachement points etc from the wiper arms that I referenced:
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