Dodge Ram 3500: No Wipers
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Date: 2020-08-05
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Smitty
It must be Dodge week - I've got a '98 Ram 2500 & a '02 1500 I'm working on right now. The '02 got a brake overhaul, including e-brake shoes & hardware, plus axle seals, thanks to that wonderful design. The '98 is getting 2 new hub bearings in the Dana 60 front end, along with axle seals, swaybar end links, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, steering stabilizer, and a mystery plow wired up (plow isn't with truck, but I have the harness and switches - I'll figure out what it's for as I go I suppose, lol, plus I have to diag. the intermittent low speed function and failure to park on the wipers - glad you posted this one! Just in time. :)
HA! Sounds like all plow trucks smell the same. I've got a mouse motel in the '94 S10 plow truck. Turn on the heat, and it'll make your nose bleed with mouse pee stench. My wife was gagging and I had to let her out last year while I was plowing, HAHAHA! She couldn't handle the. odoriferous emanation.
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It must be Dodge week - I've got a '98 Ram 2500 & a '02 1500 I'm working on right now. The '02 got a brake overhaul, including e-brake shoes & hardware, plus axle seals, thanks to that wonderful design. The '98 is getting 2 new hub bearings in the Dana 60 front end, along with axle seals, swaybar end links, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, steering stabilizer, and a mystery plow wired up (plow isn't with truck, but I have the harness and switches - I'll figure out what it's for as I go I suppose, lol, plus I have to diag. the intermittent low speed function and failure to park on the wipers - glad you posted this one! Just in time. :)
HA! Sounds like all plow trucks smell the same. I've got a mouse motel in the '94 S10 plow truck. Turn on the heat, and it'll make your nose bleed with mouse pee stench. My wife was gagging and I had to let her out last year while I was plowing, HAHAHA! She couldn't handle the. odoriferous emanation.
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CTSCAPER
I have an '02 2500 diesel with the quad cab, just starting to show rust in the usual places, frame is in great condition. Called Safelite to replace the windshield.
Guy around 25 spent about 1/2 hr trying to get the wiper blades off and gave up. I asked if there was another tech he could call for some tips. Crickets.
Two days later guy around 50 shows up and pops the wiper blades right off. Why didn't the young guy call him for advice?
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I have an '02 2500 diesel with the quad cab, just starting to show rust in the usual places, frame is in great condition. Called Safelite to replace the windshield.
Guy around 25 spent about 1/2 hr trying to get the wiper blades off and gave up. I asked if there was another tech he could call for some tips. Crickets.
Two days later guy around 50 shows up and pops the wiper blades right off. Why didn't the young guy call him for advice?
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autos
My ram 2500 has no windshield wipers and no brake lights at same time fuses are good. I am suspecting a bad combo switch. Weird thing is I have a trailer brake controller and it still lights up when I step on the brake but it doesn't send power to the trailer brakes or tail lights either, unless I slide the brake switch on it then the trailer brakes and the brake lights on the truck and trailer all work.
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My ram 2500 has no windshield wipers and no brake lights at same time fuses are good. I am suspecting a bad combo switch. Weird thing is I have a trailer brake controller and it still lights up when I step on the brake but it doesn't send power to the trailer brakes or tail lights either, unless I slide the brake switch on it then the trailer brakes and the brake lights on the truck and trailer all work.
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Embermist69
Ya sticking the hand in there is no fun, luckily I had my dad by to turn it off. But damn and thankfully they don't have that much torque. I know I got lucky, and it wasn't in the spots that can cut the digits off by chance, but still not fun one damn bit.
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Ya sticking the hand in there is no fun, luckily I had my dad by to turn it off. But damn and thankfully they don't have that much torque. I know I got lucky, and it wasn't in the spots that can cut the digits off by chance, but still not fun one damn bit.
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craig
Another great video Eric. Many teachable moments. My favorite as a naive mechanic was that a suddenly activated wiper assembly could result in loss of fingers. Thanks for the heads up to which now appears intuitve but I didn't appreciate beforehand. Thank you
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Another great video Eric. Many teachable moments. My favorite as a naive mechanic was that a suddenly activated wiper assembly could result in loss of fingers. Thanks for the heads up to which now appears intuitve but I didn't appreciate beforehand. Thank you
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Classified
I'm having a similar issue with mine. High and low work fine but when on any intermittent speed the wipers park at random spots on the windshield. Seemed like a no-brainer bad switch so I replaced it and no change. Guess it's time to test the motor.
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I'm having a similar issue with mine. High and low work fine but when on any intermittent speed the wipers park at random spots on the windshield. Seemed like a no-brainer bad switch so I replaced it and no change. Guess it's time to test the motor.
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Kent
yea one of the things that makes you great is that you follow a very clear and consistent process to diagnose these electrical issues. I have to diagnose the blower motor on my car and I know exactly what order to check things in.
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yea one of the things that makes you great is that you follow a very clear and consistent process to diagnose these electrical issues. I have to diagnose the blower motor on my car and I know exactly what order to check things in.
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Mariah
Ack! You're using pen instead of pencil on the wiring diagram! :-)
Great to know about pulling the wiper blades upward about 30 degrees before pulling the slider and getting the #% things to come off.
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Ack! You're using pen instead of pencil on the wiring diagram! :-)
Great to know about pulling the wiper blades upward about 30 degrees before pulling the slider and getting the #% things to come off.
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autos
Thanks for your wiper repair diagnostic video using the schematic; also your load 4 amp test of the ground using the light was a good reminder to use sufficient amp draw for valid load test.
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Thanks for your wiper repair diagnostic video using the schematic; also your load 4 amp test of the ground using the light was a good reminder to use sufficient amp draw for valid load test.
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Matt
12: 30 and what happens afterward. especially 12: 50 - sounds like me and my wife when im trying to figure out a problem on a car at home lolz, great video! thanks for the great content!
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12: 30 and what happens afterward. especially 12: 50 - sounds like me and my wife when im trying to figure out a problem on a car at home lolz, great video! thanks for the great content!
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