StudeTom

Hi Guys!
Tom here from western Washington state and I'm a Studebaker guy with a question about a substitute wiper switch for a project '63 Avanti I'm working on.

My old (and broken) factory switch has five spade terminals marked: A,P,B, F1 and F2. My motor has a black, blue, red and yellow set of wires that connect, according to my shop manual's schematic, and Prestolite:

Blue to P
Black to A
Yellow to F2
Red to F1

Okay... I bought a Mopar switch on Ebay, thinking it would be a suitable substitute for the junk switch from the Avanti. It has the numbers 2864415 and under that; 23199 (if that helps). Also with five terminals, but they're marked: A,B,H, P1 and P2.
Can anyone tell me on which terminal I should plant the wires?
Thanks so much!

P.S. I had a '63 Valiant with the 225 and absolutely loved it, years ago.

440roadrunner

Sorry I can't be much help. But just about all manufacturer's used some "tricky" wiring with switches. Some of the circuitry was switched in the ground leg side of things

Probably the best thing to do is to take your old one apart CAREFULLY and see if you can inspect the contacts to see which does what and when. You might even be able to clean up the contacts and epoxy / crimp it back together.

What EVER you do be careful. The original may have switched the field and armature in series, so if you screw around and get things mis--configured, you could easily burn up the motor. One way to protect things during testing, is to unhook the linkage so the motor has no load, and then wire one leg of the battery in series with a stop lamp bulb to provide a protective resistance