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When I bought my car a year ago it had the Trico windshield washer pump under the hood but it was for show and not go.

I decided to make this all work so here is the saga:
Many posts and many replies with pictures and verbal descriptions later. . . . .

My car is a 1954 Packard Cavalier, the wiper control is a small knob on the left side of the steering column with a small button in the middle. Turn the knob and turn on the wipers.

Push the button for a second or two and release it, and water (or Packard brand washer fluid) is sprayed onto the windshield and immediately the wipers start by themselves and run until the water quits spraying.

This is a Vacuum powered system made by Trico.
The button closes a switch which operates a 6 volt solenoid on the pump which sets this in motion all automatically, hands free.

Parts are getting scarce and hard to find.
I rebuilt the pump with a new rebuild kit from McVeys Cadalic.

I got the Co-Ordinator on eBay from a Chevy parts guy.
Robert Ficken (Wiperman) sold me a nice rebuilt wiper motor, and I supplied the labor.

There were questions as to if the wiper motor with the Co-Ordinator would fit properly under the hood using the existing mounting bracket and it does. The Co-Ordinator is the little black plastic cylinder to the right side of the wiper motor which turns on the motor when the logic on the pump say water is about to flow.

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Well done.

After seeing your coordinator mounted, I'm even more convinced the reason the motor was tilted down in 54 only was because of the hydraulic pump.

Since the coordinator was a new addition and not knowing which cars would be equipped with both the washer and the hydraulics, it must have been decided to tilt the motor for all. With the tilt the coordinator wouldn't run into the pump bracket but would instead fall in the clear space near or behind the pump solenoid.

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I can see how the hydraulic pump unit could get in the way. Fortunately I don't have that feature on my car.

I didn't know what I was in for until I started seeing replies here on the forum to my initial questions.

Pictures are the best part.

I downloaded the pump rebuild instruction from the forum first, which is the cause for all of this.

The wiper motor I had worked after I did my version of a rebuild. but . . . .

The new wiper motor runs 1000% better on almost no vacuum, and the fact its seals don't leak means it will run the wipers on a dry windshield at idle speed or with my foot in the gas it only slows just a bit.

The hardest part was the rubber tubing up under the dash to the nozzles.

Again thanks to all for the help on this project.

Jim