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Well it took a couple weeks but I got the wheels back from being re-powder coated. The coating is doing much better this time. The only catch was that I needed to sand down the powder coating on the front wheels to get them over the hubs.
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But that is not the big news. The big news is my wife gave me not one but three sets of wiper blades for the Jeep. I admire her confidence. For right now I am just going to try and get one set installed. I took the driver’s side blade off and compared it to one of the new ones.
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Driver’s side snapped right on. Looks good.
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Passenger side might be more of a problem though. The arm and blade are completely different. It took me a while to figure out how to get the blade off. Turns out I just had to pull on the tab circled in red in the picture.
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Oh yeah, totally different. Now what?
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My plan is to swap the rubber from the new blade into the frame of the old blade. So I have to figure out how to take the old one apart. My first clue is the word “lift” on both ends.
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Some fast work with a small screwdriver and the old (very, very, old) rubber slid out.
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That metal tool in the picture is a chemical spatula intended for transferring and mixing chemicals. I find it really handy for all kinds of scraping and prying jobs. Including in this case getting the old blade out of the stainless rail bit. The new blade is a different profile than the old one but will probably fit in the rail.
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I was mostly right. The rubber fits but the part above the rail is a little thicker than the old rubber. That made the little “lift” caps not fit right. So I trimmed the rubber a little bit and got the caps on. This will work just fine. Not a bad day’s work for Christmas.