The longer blade goes on the driver's side.
Remove plastic cap. Remove nut. Pry up wiper arm.....
Check your wiper linkage under the hood and/or the tightness of the wiper arm on the wiper spindle.
need to take remove wiper arm then with wipers switched off lay wiper arm where it needs to be and reattach to wiper shaft The above answer is right on. but .Someone may have put a "too long" wiper blade on it as well.
Replace wiper blade and carefully bend wiper arm so it makes good contact with windshield
The windshield wiper arm is held in place by a retaining clip. Hold the retaining clip in and the windshield wiper arm will come off. Put the new windshield wiper on and read lease the retaining clip.
The wiper arm is attached to the pivot which is part of the wiper transmission, which in turn is attached to the wiper motor.
Find the largest hammer you can, strike the wiper repeatedly, remove, duct tape new wiper on.
On the bottom (hood or cowl side) of the wiper arm is a little curved tab. With the wiper's springloaded arm folded away from the windshield move this tab away from the arm and the entire wiper arm assembly will come free from the shaft. Do this very gently, it should be very easy to do.
most likely due to a dis connected arm in the cowel. The arm that connects the wiper arm to the motor wears out on the end and falls off of the arm assembly. pull the wiper motor. ( kind of a pain ). Take out the arm . get another from the salvage.
Remove the windshield wiper arm from the windshield wiper motor. Remove the wiring harness. Remove the retaining nut. Reverse the process to install the new windshield wiper motor.
The wiper arm and blade go to a pivot shaft.
To replace the wiper arm on a Mazda 626, first lift the wiper arm away from the windshield until it is at a 90-degree angle. Locate the small tab or clip on the underside of the wiper arm where it attaches to the wiper motor shaft, press it to release the arm. Carefully pull the wiper arm off the shaft, then align the new wiper arm with the shaft and push it down until it clicks into place. Finally, lower the wiper arm back onto the windshield and ensure it is secure.