I'm working on this right now, and so far I've been gentle. Hopefully somebody will happen to be on the board right now who has done this already, and can give me the secret before I start trying to force things.
All is disconnected, the old one is sitting loose in the well, and I have the replacement sitting on top of the hood so I know what's underneath. The old motor is loose, and working gently I can get the driverside arm attachment point out of its hole, but not the other one. I can force it through, but then several points including the plastic motor sleeve (waterproof enclosure) will be scraping pretty hard with any further movement.
It appears obvious that the right motion is to rotate the assembly in place to get the two arm attachments out of their holes, and then slide the whole assembly one way or the other, probably toward the passenger side, before starting to pull the whole assembly out of the big hole, driver side first. However, working gently, I can't get past first base.
Should it require force? And if so, which way? Especially when putting the new one in, I don't want to tear the waterproof enclosure around the motor.
All is disconnected, the old one is sitting loose in the well, and I have the replacement sitting on top of the hood so I know what's underneath. The old motor is loose, and working gently I can get the driverside arm attachment point out of its hole, but not the other one. I can force it through, but then several points including the plastic motor sleeve (waterproof enclosure) will be scraping pretty hard with any further movement.
It appears obvious that the right motion is to rotate the assembly in place to get the two arm attachments out of their holes, and then slide the whole assembly one way or the other, probably toward the passenger side, before starting to pull the whole assembly out of the big hole, driver side first. However, working gently, I can't get past first base.
Should it require force? And if so, which way? Especially when putting the new one in, I don't want to tear the waterproof enclosure around the motor.