Ya, I was thinking about that when I was fighting with the one side. It's one of the few tools that I've never bought, as the shops I worked at always had them on hand. I've worked on some of the newer cars with the breakable wiper transmissions in case you hit a pedestrian, and they are a godsend as anytime something is supposed to break and you start applying force, the "pucker" factor increases with more force applied. Thanks for the good tip and the comment.
Ya, they definitely do that. I'm glad these aren't like the old GM minivans where the transmission had to hit a little metal tab to reorient and go into park at the bottom of the windshield. Of course, after a couple thousand hits that tab gets bent out and you wind up with wipers that park at a much more vertical angle. My transmission was still wobbly, so they weren't seized in this instance, but at 14 years old with over 200,000 miles, it's very possible this wasn't the first wiper motor or transmission for the vehicle. Thanks for the comment.
