DS Wiper blade "sticks" and get caught by PS

[shutt22]

The driver's side wiper blade on my 97 Taurus sticks (especially when window becomes dry). This causes the passenger side wiper to catch up to it, and they get stuck together.

Seems like the arm may have more "play" than it should. Is it possibe to tighened this arm - and would this even help, or could it be reflecting a faulty motor?

thx
shutt

[DisneyVK]

get a haynes manual and take out the wiper assembly, takes about 5 minutes, if your wipers are going in different directions sometimes, the actual arms that make it move have come undone. its just a plastic ball joint that you need to tap back in, thats why it works some times and not others because the ball joint is still catching itself were it needs to, but uncatches somtimes leaving it looking weird.

DVK

[wesner1]

Had same problem. At base of wiper, pop off round plastic piece and tighten bolt underneath back down. Mine came loose after trying to use wipers as, um, snow scrapers...