Rear Wiper Motor Replacement

REMOVAL
1. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable.
2. Remove the rear wiper arm from the rear wiper motor output shaft. (Refer to ELECTRICAL/REAR WIPERS/WASHERS/REAR WIPER ARM - REMOVAL).

Fig. 19 Rear Wiper Motor Output Shaft:

3. Remove the nut that secures the threaded sleeve of the rear wiper motor output shaft to the outside of the liftglass.
4. Remove the washer from the rear wiper motor output shaft sleeve.
5. Remove the trim cover from the rear wiper motor on the inside of the liftglass. (Refer to ELECTRICAL/REAR WIPERS/WASHERS/REAR WIPER MOTOR TRIM COVER - REMOVAL).
6. Disconnect the hardtop wire harness connector for the rear wiper motor from the motor pigtail wire connector.

Fig. 20 Rear Wiper Motor Bracket:

7. Remove the nut and washer that secures the rear wiper motor bracket insulator to the stud on the liftglass.
8. Remove the washer from the stud that secures the rear wiper motor bracket insulator to the liftglass.
9. From the inside of the liftglass, gently pull the rear wiper motor away from the liftglass until the output shaft clears the rubber grommet in the liftglass output shaft hole.
10. Remove the rear wiper motor and mounting bracket from the liftglass as a unit.
11. Remove the rubber grommet from the outside of the liftglass output shaft hole.

INSTALLATION
1. Install the rubber grommet from the outside of the liftglass output shaft hole. Be certain that the alignment arrow molded into the outer flange of the grommet is aligned with the arrowhead imprinted on the glass below the output shaft hole.
2. Position the rear wiper motor to the inside of the liftglass with the output shaft inserted through the rubber grommet and the mounting bracket insulator installed over the stud on the inside of the liftglass.
3. Reinstall the washer onto the stud that secures the rear wiper motor bracket insulator to the liftglass.
4. Install and tighten the nut and washer that secures the rear wiper motor bracket insulator to the stud on the liftglass. Tighten the nut to 6 N.m (54 in. lbs.).
5. From the outside of the liftglass, reinstall the washer over the rear wiper motor output shaft sleeve.
6. Install and tighten the nut that secures the threaded sleeve of the rear wiper motor output shaft to the outside of the liftglass. Tighten the nut to 5 N.m (44 in. lbs.).
7. Reconnect the hardtop wire harness connector for the rear wiper motor to the motor pigtail wire connector.
8. Reinstall the trim cover over the rear wiper motor on the inside of the liftglass. (Refer to ELECTRICAL/REAR WIPERS/WASHERS/REAR WIPER MOTOR TRIM COVER - INSTALLATION).
9. Reinstall the rear wiper arm onto the rear wiper motor output shaft. (Refer to ELECTRICAL/REAR WIPERS/WASHERS/REAR WIPER ARM - INSTALLATION)
10. Reconnect the battery negative cable