How to Replace Rear Wiper Motor 2000-07 Toyota Highlander
Created on: 2018-03-07
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken,damaged, or failing rear windshield wiper motor on 04 Toyota Highlander
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step 1 :Removing the Rear Wiper Arm
- Remove the trim cover from the wiper arm stud
- Apply rust penetrant to the wiper arm nut
- Remove the 10mm nut from the wiper arm
- Rock the wiper arm back and forth to pull it off the stud
- If the arm does not come off the stud, thread the nut onto the stud by hand
- Attach a wiper arm puller to the wiper arm stud
- Turn the wiper puller bolt with a 3/4 inch socket and ratchet to loosen the wiper arm
- Remove the puller from the stud
- Thread the nut off the stud
- Pull the wiper arm off the stud
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step 2 :Removing the Rear Hatch Trim
- Pry off the upper trim from the windshield
- Pry off the side trim from the windshield
- Pry off the trim door form the pull handle
- Remove the 10mm bolt from the pull handle
- Pry the trim down with a trim tool
- Pry out around the trim and remove the trim panel
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step 3 :Removing the Rear Wiper Motor
- Disconnect the electrical connector
- Remove the three 10mm bolts from the wiper motor
- Remove the wiper motor
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step 4 :Installing the Rear Wiper Motor
- Insert the wiper motor into place
- Tighten the three 10mm bolts to the wiper motor
- Connect the electrical connector
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step 5 :Installing the Rear Hatch Trim
- Insert the clips into the trim
- Press the trim up into the hatch door
- Tighten the 10mm bolt to the pull handle
- Press on the door to the pull handle
- Attach the side trim to the windshield
- Attach the upper trim to the windshield
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step 6 :Installing the Rear Wiper Arm
- Slide the wiper arm onto the stud
- Thread the nut onto the wiper stud by hand
- Tighten the nut with a 10mm socket and ratchet
- Clip the trim cover onto the stud
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Swivel
Needle nose pliers
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To remove the rear wiper, we start by removing the trim cover. Separate it on the sides and lift straight up. We're basically separating it, pulling it off those pins out of here. Put this aside. We're going to use some rust penetrant on here. This bolt is pretty rusty. This nut is pretty rusty. We'll use a 10 millimeter socket and ratchet and loosen it. You might have to hold onto the wiper arm. Take that off, set it to the side. We might get lucky or we might have to use the puller. We lift up the arm and rock it back and forth. Sometimes you can wiggle it off. This one doesn't want to come off, so let's get out wiper arm puller.
Going to reinstall our nut, just lightly. We've got our wiper arm puller. You can get those from 1A Auto. Slide it underneath and then I'll thread it down. The reason why I put the nut on there, I don't want to damage the shaft that this rides on, potentially mushroom it out. Just get it lined up on here the best we can. It's a three-quarter end on this and I'll tighten this up. It shouldn't take too much force to pop this off, just like that. Remove the puller, remove the loose nut, and lift the arm right off.
To remove the hatch trim panels, they need to be removed in order. You start with the top one, the ones on the sides, and then you can remove this large panel here. Start with this one, on the driver's side, the clip is not going straight in, it's actually clipping onto the sheet metal this way, so you have to push it up and off. This one is worn out. There might be more force to get yours off. Then you'll go along and pop this out of the sheet metal. If it's hard to remove, you can use a plastic prying tool. You can get these from 1A Auto. You can push it in here to help you pry it out.
So there's a metal clip here and here. There's supposed to be one here. It's missing. Somebody probably had this off before, and then this clip here clips over the sheet metal this way because otherwise, the wiring harness would be in the way. You can put that aside.
This trim panel uses the same style clips. You pull down on it. Pull it away from the hatch and also going to work it out from behind the bigger panel. The metal clips stay inside the metal hatch panel. It's not a big deal. You can just make sure you push these back in over it when you put the trim panel back on. Remove the other side the same way. Pull it out of the clips and then you have to work it underneath this one. So that metal clip came with it. But these two stayed. Not a big deal. The pull handle here.
You're going to remove this plastic cap using the plastic trim tool. Use a 10 millimeter socket extension and a ratchet to remove these bolts. Take the grab handle out. Trim panel is held in with clips around the edge. You need to separate it from the door. Sometimes you can get your hand up here. If you can't, you can go back to your plastic trim tools. Slide it in here and then it'll help me pry it down. Usually once you get one free, you can start to work around the edge. You got to pull it with some amount of force. It feels like you're going to break it. But you're just popping the clips out of the metal. Sometimes the clips come loose and those can be reused. I'm just going to dump those out there. If the clips stay in the panel, it's not a big deal. We can take those out afterwards.
Disconnect the electrical connector from it. Push in on the lock, pull it down, and move to the side. Wiper motor is held in with three 10 millimeter bolts. Start removing those 10 millimeter socket and ratchet and extension. Holding onto the wiper motor as I loosen this one, it will fall and pull it straight out of the panel.
To reinstall it, this one is working fine, so we're going to reuse it. Put the wiper arm shaft through the opening, line up the holes. I'll get this one started. Reinstall the other bolts, and make sure you didn't lose the little steel grommet that's on here. Tighten these back up. When they get tight, I'll just stop. Plug the wiper motor back in. It will click when it's locked in place.
If the trim clips stayed in the hatch panel, take a trim clip tool. Just put it on here. Pop it right out. Do that for all the ones that may have stayed behind. These'll just slide back into the panel just like that. Couple of ours are missing. Not a big deal. There's plenty of these holding on. This one over here.
In fact, I'm going to move this one, since some of these are missing, over here. You start with the side trim panel. Going to be a little easier to install these first because the lower trim panel will fit in this groove and the upper one fits over here. So the metal clip stayed on this part of the trim. The other two metal clips stayed inside the body. So we'll kind of line them up. Push them in. Give them a good hit do the same for the other side. Take our rear lower trim panel and get it up in place. Push the clips back in. Final trim piece. We'll put this upper one on. It needs to slide over this and then will get pushed into these openings here. Up with it. Push it in and down. Get it lined up. The trim panel's installed.
To reinstall the pull hand, get the bolt through the metal bracket, 10 millimeter socket. Tighten it. Reinstall the plastic cap and the pull handle's reinstalled.
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