An update to my November 2023 post
I pulled the windshield cowl off to take a look at the wiper motor. Under it, i found that the vacuum attached to the motor was torn. I traced the line to the other side of the firewall to find that it was not attached to anything, I hadn't the damndest where it was supposed to go! A trusted mechanic colleague of mine told me the other end attached to a port on the
carburetor, which had been previously plugged up.
I put the cowl & wiper blades back on & now I have the opposite problem of what I had before. The wipers aren't constantly running anymore, but now they won't turn on at all. My current hypothesis goes like this: The severed vacuum line at the motor is disrupting the control system & must be reattached to that port on the
carb I was told about. However, the port on the
carb is slightly bigger than that of the hole on the other end of the vacuum line & does not fit.
Any input on this issue?