1943 Dodge WC51 Windshield Wiper Repair

This will be a short posting. The driver's side wiper blade came off its arm when I was washing the truck several days ago. I took a look at things today and found that a small bracket on the end of the arm has rusted through. No problem, I can fix it. Yes, I'm cheap. Or maybe I don't want to take the time to try and find and order a replacement, pay an exorbitant amount for shipping, then have to wait a week or two for it to show up. But mostly it's that I just like the challenge.

Here's the rusted part. The right side end has withered away to nothing.

I used an acetylene torch to weld some filler onto the part. It took a little finesse to not just melt the thin metal part into a blob.

Here it's ground down.

And the final shot of it back on the truck. I painted it so it wouldn't just rust away again.