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MG TD TF 1500 - TD Windshield Idler

I am sorting out my chrome from the platers and I could not remember if the windshield idler has a flat washer under the 1/2 nut or not.

None of my original pictures show the idler :-(
Chris Couper

Can you translate Idler into Australian please? :-)
If its the locknut on the side then there should be a washer with D shaped hole beneath. The wingnut just has a conical washer.

Matthew.
M Magilton

The windshield wiper idler supports the slave wiper arm on a TD, and does indeed have a plated washer under the securing nut. I recently purchased a complete assembly from Doug Pelton at From The Frame Up, as it was cheaper than replating the old parts.
Hope this assists with the translation Mathew.[just kidding]
Regards
Wayne Routley TD 1864 Y6668
W Routley

Thanks Wayne. I had this rouge chrome washer and its perfect under the idler nut so I was pretty sure that's where it went.

Matthews problem is that TF's don't have one so its not in his vernacular :-)
Chris Couper

Chris, can you post a pic?

Thanks.

Jud '53 TD (with wiper assembly disassembled)
J K Chapin

Hard to take a picture with an iPhone flash on chrome. You can barely make out the washer under the nut.

Chris Couper

Can see it well enough. Thanks.

Jud
J K Chapin

This thread was discussed on 30/09/2013

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