I had bench tested the wiper motor and the motor still works. The issue I am having is when everything is hooked up, as soon as I turn on the ignition, it blows the fuse immediately , I then unplugged some of the wires individually and found that when one of the wires (in the 3wire connector on top of wiper motor) makes a connection it pops the fuse. Now that this car is 50+ yrs old I wanted to just replace all the wires to the wiper motor instead of tracing one.
question 1) Is there a site/store I can get the proper wiper motor harness by itself?
question 2) what would be the proper way to run new wires from the wiper motor to the switch? (all I can find are camaro/Chevelle parts or diagrams, im assuming they are the same? if not similar?)
Do you have an automatic trans? That fuse protects both the wiper and downshift switch. I believe one of the wiper/washer wires runs over to the downshift switch to power it. Could your short be in that circuit rather than the wiring or wiper?
I do have an Automatic transmission, its a column shift. I only started having this problem after changing out my oil pump (had to jack the motor up and remove motor mounts to get to it)
if it was the something wrong with it going to the downshift switch would the trans. not be able to shift properly?
The trans works fine without a downshift/kickdown switch. The purpose of it is to let you manually downshift when you "floor it" while driving for a quick acceleration. In the past, it was often referred to, somewhat incorrectly, as "kicking it into passing gear".
I'm not sure how it physically looks on a '69 but on the '68 it is a switch mounted near the carb that gets activated physically when the throttle is wide open.