Help with putting windshield wiper arm assembly back on?!

[bunchgrass]

Hey all
I recently had to replace the front windshield on my 2012 Kubota M8540 (cab of course). Since the wiper motor drive goes through a hole in the glass, I had to remove the wiper arm assembly. Ended up needing a wiper arm puller to get it off. NOW - I can't get that thing back on to save me. It even seems like I'm somehow not putting it back on right as things don't fit correctly in my mind. I do have a pic from the service manual showing the exploded view but I'll be damned if can figure out the right way to get it back on.

Anyone have experience or any ideas to help a guy out?

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

What are you not getting about installing it?

 

[bunchgrass]

What are you not getting about installing it?

In the image you notice 2 studs, one being the actual drive shaft of the wiper motor and the other to anchor the "bracing arm". The problem is that the seals/rubber bushings that go on the driveshaft as well as the fact that the wiper arm only goes on a little way once it engages the teeth of the drive-- that makes it nearly impossible to get the other part of the base plate over the other stud.

I know this is unclear but it's about the single baseplate with the 2 holes for the 2 studs seeming to need to be in 2 different planes rather than on the same one, as it seems in the picture. Maybe I can get an actual photo tomorrow.

EDIT - anyone with a Kubota cab and wipers out there,if you could take a pic of your wiper blades as they are attached to the motor, that might help me too. Thanks in advance.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

You install the parts in yellow first, then you install the parts in blue.

 

[bunchgrass]

You install the parts in yellow first, then you install the parts in blue.
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My problem is that the rubber piece (#10) pushes on the mounting plate that is part of both yellow and blue such that getting the plate onto the yellow stud is not possible.

I even separated the yellow arm from the rest of the assembly via the 2 set screws in the image but the issue is with mounting the base plate.

 

[Russell King]

Are you using a new base (not numbered in diagram above)? If the windshield was broken perhaps it damaged the base?