anyone fitted a mk2 wiper motor?

[BobbyT]

hi all, read that this will really sort out the uber slow mk1 front wipers! anyone done this and is it easy to do? cheers rob 

[caddyrage]

The motor is a straight swap but you need to cut the mk2's plug and some of the wiring off the loom. The wire colours are the same as mk1 so you just connect them however you wish. I'd solder them then insult each wire. Easy way is to put spade connectors on the mk2's wires then just attach them to the corresponding pin on the original mk1 plug. Hope that helps 

[[han]]

yeah i heard that too.. prob on here!!!

Supposed to be cool. if you get it to work, let me know how you get on! don't think i've seen one on a car, but i can be proved wrong!

[rubjonny]

it was a direct swap on my cabby, as caddyrage says chop the plug & a length of loom off the donor car as well, I crimped spades on mine and joined to the MK1 plug matching up the wire colours.

BUT I've heard on tintop MK1s it is NOT a straight swap, you have to open both motors and swap the MK2 internals into the MK1 housing.  I'm guessing that after 83 the cabbys & caddys linkage was modified so that the MK2 shape motors fitted or something!

[kraM]

TOP TIP

Pull all the linkage apart, remove the little clips that hold the the splined shafts into the linkage, clean the holes and shafts , greese and re-assmble.  The linkages sieze up, then the action seems slow.
Clean and re-grease them and they become morden fast, without the headache of re-wiring.

Cheers

kraM

[sharpie]

I'd solder them then insult each wire

can't do much for their confidence 

[Mk1Mad J - 16v]

BUT I've heard on tintop MK1s it is NOT a straight swap, you have to open both motors and swap the MK2 internals into the MK1 housing.  I'm guessing that after 83 the cabbys & caddys linkage was modified so that the MK2 shape motors fitted or something!

  Bahhh too late!!! I tried to fit a Mk2 motor the other day and gave up when I realised there was no mount on it,  I did wonder if the internals could be swapped, but when I opened it up it fell apart took ages to work out how to get it back together and I've only just got the original working properly again today, I'm not messing with it again for a while, its summer now anyway

[rubjonny]

oops never mind
I wonder if a mk1 cabby linkage would fit a tintop...

[robiwill]

fitted quite a few of these to Mk1 golfs, caddys, jetta's and Cabs, later cabs and caddys after 1990 have MK2 motors fitted allready btw.
top tip make sure the motor you are fitting comes from a UK car and built after 1988 as the direction of the motor is different.

quick splice of the wiring and its done

[dub_Driver]

 Had it on my old mk1, plug and play. Get a single wiper kit after that