Thats no joke...this is the easiest mod ever...and its free. I mentioned in another post...cant wait to get my silblades in. Its 1:05am. I went to my garage at 1am, did the re-index thing...did a test wipe, BAM...done. I like how ford made the arms easy to remove - no tools needed, unless you dont want to remove the key with your hands!

 

I follerd the destructions to the letters, and now the rubber part is facing the air and the metal part is wiping!! Is that okie dokie??? Makes some cool sounds!

 

That's fine. Mine does the same and haven't had any problems yet.Granted, it didn't rain yet.

 

I read through here and I may missed it but did you leave the arms swapped or switch them back. Also did you have to do this to both sides or just the driver's side.

 

Leave arms as is and just the drivers side. At least that all I did...

 

If you re-index the driver's side, there's no need to swap the arms...Kevin

 

thats correct, swapping the arms is not required and wont make much diff anyway. You will however want to reindex both arms to make them match up while in the park position..

 

Thanks

 

Ok I am slow as dirt.

I just did this and just want to give you my take on it.

Works great, I don't think there is any size difference in the arms or the way they are built but it looked to me that to get to the same ending spot I had to put the driver's arm higher when re-indexing it. So I swapped out the arms. Could be I just wanted my son to quit spraying the wiper fluid while I was trying to do this.

He was a big help.

 

I figured, this hasn't been around in a long time, but was probably one of the most helpful, ridiculously easy mods I've done to my truck, and thought, hmmm maybe some new owners would be interested in this thread- so here it is, from 6 feet under.

 

great mod and thanks for bringing it back up. Project for Saturday!

 

First mod I did its very easy. I forgot I even did it.

 

Didn't realize there was a post about this. Should have done a search. Anyway, I thought it was crazy that the drivers side didn't wipe enough and the passenger side didn't go all the way down when off. So I swapped them and that was enough for me. Now it proper. Kind of screwy that they were backwards (or whatever) to begin with.

Now if I could just get a set of blades that will last. Brand new sets of the Perfect Fits on my truck and my wifes Solara and within a month there're spent. They're not cheap either.

Jon

 

Here's a link to another description of the re-indexing; this link also has pics.

http://users.cableaz.com/~kinzerford...r_Reindex.html

 

When I got my truck home after I bought it I noticed the wipers looked odd. I ended up swapping them and they were perfect. Must of had a new wiper guy that day in Michigan.