Trick to VE wiper arms???!

[mtd]

Hey all, VE wiper arms.

Got the drivers side wiper arm off. Pull cover, unscrew nut, used a puller to get it off. OK... bit of a wrestle, but it came.
Passenger side, cap off, nut tarnished with beginnings of rust, mmmmm... nut came off OK.

But, the wiper arm. The f... thing will not come off. Used two types of puller. Zip, and bloody hard to get correct angle for puller.

Then, to top it off, my socket ratchet broke (cheap rubbish, I really should have known better). New (quality) one tomorrow. Now I have 1 wiper, yipee.

Any tips? I've seen a few YouTube vids with bashing the spindel to release a bit but i'm not too impressed with that. I really do not want to bugger/burr the spindel. It has to be a bit rusted on, or dirt, or something.
Any experience?

 

[lout]

soak with crc, rp7

 

[mtd]

soak with crc, rp7

Yeah, ta. Hit it with Wd-40 - see how it goes tmrw.

 

[Fu Manchu]

Yeah I used wd-40 and wiggled it back and forth.

 

[mtd]

Got both arms off now. Gave the difficult one a good clean and re-installed. On checking the cabin filter area my 'thingy' (no idea what you call it) for allowing water out of the cabin filter chamber had actually come right out and just sitting in the chamber. I've re-installed it and it seems to fit snug enough. Lots of crap in there but clean now (reminder to self - probably need a new cabin/pollen filter).
Fu. i'll have a re-look at that area you mention could be letting water in above the filter.

 

[losh1971]

Got both arms off now. Gave the difficult one a good clean and re-installed. On checking the cabin filter area my 'thingy' (no idea what you call it) for allowing water out of the cabin filter chamber had actually come right out and just sitting in the chamber. I've re-installed it and it seems to fit snug enough. Lots of crap in there but clean now (reminder to self - probably need a new cabin/pollen filter).
Fu. i'll have a re-look at that area you mention could be letting water in above the filter.

How do you access the cabin filter?

 

[vr304]

How do you access the cabin filter?

Search it on YouTube mate its pretty simple

 

[Fu Manchu]

How do you access the cabin filter?

Pop the front few scrivets on the right on the wiper cowl. Lift it a bit and get limited access to the filter. Clean the grot out of that too. Eeew.

 

[mtd]

Sorry vr304, Fu got to you first - thanks Fu. I was busy writing my epistle to the Corinthians... Frecken leaks.. and its raining.

 

[vr304]

Pop the front few scrivets on the right on the wiper cowl. Lift it a bit and get limited access to the filter. Clean the grot out of that too. Eeew.

Yip done mine recently too and it gets pretty yuck in there alright, good to get rid of that mesh screen and put a proper filter in there