Thanks. I moved the cable assembly from the LHD to the 93 motor. Told my body guy to fill in the #1 and #4 holes.

Richard,

I think you'd need to change the tubing assembly that houses the cable; or at lease get a shorter piece of tubing for between holes 2 and 3, and a longer piece for the distance from between hole 3 to the end.  Not sure if you have to change the wheel boxes or if they can be indexed for a different sweep angle. Thinking about it, you'll probably be better off using the tubing assembly with wheel boxes for a LHD setup.

meb 

Looks like my question fits in here.

I have all the front end of a 93/94 Rover Mini that was RHD. I'm putting it on my 75 pickup that needs (by law) to be LHD (and was originally).

I have all the controls and wiring for the 93/94. If I just install the wipers as they were for RHD, will they cover the Steering position on the left?

I was trying to figure out the mounting holes, where if you count from left side, and number 1,2,3,4, I notice no car I can find a picture of uses hole number 1.

My original 2 & 3 LHD
Chile 2 & 3 LHD
Peru 2 & 3 LHD
England 2 & 4 RHD
Japan 2 & 4 RHD

Are the 75 and 93 motors different?

If I should use the 93 motor and move the arms to positions 2 & 3, what is involved?

Better yet, live where it's sunny all year and you never need to turn your wipers on! Kihei, Maui, HI.     Mini Estate

sounds like too much work. I'll stick to the original setup and put rainx on the glass and pray for sunny weather.

Success! The answers are (at least on my car): use the Mk III (37H7200) wiper boxes (larger drive gear, 32 teeth), Mk III drive cable (shortened), 110 degree drive gear, 2 speed wiper motor, wiper mount conversion kit and wiring harness. What the instructions don't say: First, You need to ensure that you have the correct schematic and the correct switch. Seems as though the supplier swapped internal functions of the switch at one point and did not tell anyone... wiring per the diagram caused a dead short with the "improved" switch. Mini Mania has now come to grips with the supplier, the switch and the schematic so that all is now matched with no shorts. MORE IMPORTANTLY: You need to either find some 5/16" OD 1/4" ID thin wall tubing to replace the original Mk I or you need to buy a Mk III wiper rack outer tube set and be prepared to modify it. The tube from the wiper box closest to the wiper motor needs to be 3/8" longer than the original Mk I piece (and about 2-1/2" shorter than the Mk III piece), and the piece that goes between the wiper boxes needs to be 3/4" longer than the original Mk I piece (and 4-3/4" shorter than the Mk III piece). When combined with standard SS wiper arms and the Bosch 10" wiper blades, there is good swipe (though an extra 2 degrees wouldn't hurt) and the damn wiper blades stay off of the damn paint (such as it is). And it parks like a "normal" car.

IMHO, If I were to be the one selling a "conversion kit" I would go beyond the mounting bracket, harness and switch and actually include the correct drive gear, the correct wiper boxes, the correct length wiper rack outer tubes, wiper arms, nuts for the wiper boxes (8 sided, not 6) and blades. This having to guess, buy several extra parts and mess around for a few months on a job that should take an hour and a half tops was a serious disappointment (especially as most of the parts aren't exactly "cheap") - and I have many years experience working on many types of cars. I would hate to be a novice and encounter so much experimentation and R&D on what is sold as a "Conversion kit"

but now it works...

I pulled out my motor and boxes to look at them.

I am using 72872A boxes and the 75664J motor.

I also have a custom cut center tube piece.

I will get the gearing for you tomorrow.

Terry

Steve, My notes from the conversion indicate that I played with gears, but doesn't indicate what I ended up with. I started out with a 120 gear and arm. If we have to, we can pull the cover off of my set up to see which is used.

The notes do say that I went with the Mk III+ wheel boxes in the standard Mk I/II cowling holes and that I used the longer center tube (Mk I/II) as well. Wiper blades and arms are just standard arms with the 10" blades as used on the full sweep, Mk I/II cars.

I did this on our 64 Traveller and will probably do it on the 65 as well.

It did take a bit of work. It is apart right now, so I can at least get some pictures for you. If I remember I used more recent wheel boxes and had to make some sections of tube. It is easy as you can get steel brake line at any auto parts place and then just flare it to fit the boxes. I do not remember the gears I used as I may have switched those as well.

Terry

I am having less than a good time converting my '67 Morris 850 Traveller to 2 speed wipers. I have the Mini Mania wiper conversion kit which I finally got to work properly after much messing around to get the correct switch and schematic. This part of the system now works properly (Long live self parking wipers!). My issue now becomes getting the sweep correct. I am using the 105 degree wheel. I am currently using the original Mk I wiper boxes (37H6100) and drive cable tubing. I have the wiper arms and blades as recommended by Mini Mania. The issue is that there is too much sweep. Setting the blades so that they are in the correct position when parked results in the lower 3" of both blades wiping beyond the screen trim and onto the paint when the wipers are at the right hand limits of their sweep (LHD, LH park) I have a pair of later Mk III wiper boxes (37H7200), and am sorting which tubing combination will get the boxes to actually fit the holes. Has anybody successfully done this conversion? If so, what combination of drive wheels, wiper boxes, drive cable tubing, wiper arms and blades were used? The local Mini Whiz has the later wiper boxes (8 sided nuts), but has no recollection of what combination of tubes/arms/blades he used to get it all to work. I live in Seattle and use the Traveller as a work vehicle, so effective wipers are a must!