How to Replace Windshield Wiper Transmission 2002-08 Dodge RAM 1500

Okay, friends, one of the first things we need to do is get our wiper arms off of here. If you were to look at the wiper arm, you could find this little tab. Just pull up on that and then you should be able to pull this right off of here. Now looking along the front cowl, you're going to see two t20 screws. There's going to be one in the driver side and one all the way over on the passenger side. Remove them both.

Now we need to remove our washer hose here. Just go ahead and separate the two pieces. Now we're going to start removing some push clips. You want nice trim tool like this or you could even use some side-angle cutters. Get this out of the way a little bit. And now we're going to grab on to this rubber piece, lift this up until it gets to this point right there where you can see the split is. Now we're going to start removing some push clips down along this lip right here. There's three for this side. Now we can grab this and separate the washer hose from right here. There we are. Remove this from the vehicle. Over on the driver side, we're going to remove these push clips as well. Grab your cowl, we're going to try to get it out of here. Remove it from your vehicle. Now we have a nice clear view of our wiper assembly here.

We're going to go ahead and grab on to this wiring harness, you squeeze this tab where my thumb is and then draw it away. Take a peek, make sure you don't see any funny colors. Set it aside. Now we're going to remove our three mounting bolts. You're going to find one on the passenger side, one in the center of the unit, and then one all the way over in the driver side. Remove all three. Grab your wiper assembly, give it a wiggle, and then remove it from the vehicle.

Okay, friends, we made our way over to the bench. Now what we need to do is grab our brand new wiper regulator here. We're going to kind of put it alongside this one and we want to make sure that our arms are facing in the right direction. This is going to be very important. You have our center arm here as well. Make sure it's going to be facing in approximately the same direction and this one. If you have yours twisted around this way, well, then your wiper blades are probably going to go down in the hood as you try to turn them on. So that would be, of course, very bad.

Now we need to remove the wiper motor from the regulator. To do that, we're going to remove these two 10-millimeter headed bolts. There we are. Now let's go ahead and separate the two and we're going to just turn this a tiny bit like this, so we can access this nut right here. Remove that 13-millimeter headed nut. Get this off of here. There we are. Now let's grab our wiper regulator. We're going to bring this over and now we're going to line this up so that this arm is going to be running parallel to the rest of the motor. Mounting nut back on there, tighten it up.

Let's grab our two mounting screws, start them both in, and then we'll snug them up. This looks great, let's get back over to the vehicle. Now let's get this back into the vehicle here. Line up all three of your mounting bolts, start all three in, and then go ahead and snug them up. Now let's snug those up. Reconnect your wiring harness, give it a nice tug. Take off both of your black caps. Now we're just going to close the hood and we're going to put the wiper arms on so we can test them before we go too much further with putting everything together.

Do the same to the other side, make it look as parallel as possible. Now we're going to test them. We want to make sure they both go up to where they need to go. That looks really great. So what I have here as it comes up very high up here, it's cleaning the majority of the windshield for me. I don't have a large area that isn't going to be swept. And I also have a layover, when the passenger side comes, it covers past where the driver side blade goes. That's going to clean the windshield for us and it looks great.

Now that we've set and tested our wiper arms, we want to make sure that we mark them so that we know exactly where they need to go after we remove them and we try to put them back on. So let's go ahead and take these back off of here now. Now with the hood back up, let's go ahead and start putting back together our cowl line. Let's go ahead and put in those push clips for this side. Now let's get the passenger side cowl line there as well. Reattach our washer fluid hose here. I'm gonna set this up so it's logged in along here. That feels good. We got our mounting holes, line them all up, put in your push clips. Put in your push clips along here. Let's get our seal back on as well and, of course, our washer fluid hose. Now we're going to put our wiper arms back on here. Let's try to line this up approximately where we had it, looks like I can go one more tooth the other direction. That looks good. All right, let's give these a test. Perfect. Let's go ahead and get our little corner screws back in. Do the same to the other side.