Sir you are correct, I never thought about just reindexing it. I have done this to a couple of my other vehicles and I'm going to do it to my Maverick. I just don't understand why the engineer could not have corrected this long before it was every put into assembly? I just retired from Ford after 35 years so I have seen ALOT of " STUFF" that did not make sense.Shortening the wiper blade will not achieve what the OP wants. Which is hiding the wipers from view.
As you can see in the picture Post #8 there is a windshield wiper park position mark on the windshield itself.
If you want to hide the wiper arms. You have to remove the wiper arm from the spindle, rotated or index it from the original position, down a notch. Then reinstall the wiper arm.
Shorting the blade, will still leave the wiper arm viewable, because it still will stop a its factory designated position.
Repositioning the arm on the drive spindle will also affect the upward sweep stop location and the overlap of the driver wiper sweep area from what the factory intended.
But then you won't be able to see the wipers when you're looking at the truck. I hope the next owner of the truck will know what was changed so that they don't go putting on 21 in wiper blades as listed. My opinion is Ford Engineers had a reason why they didn't totally hide the wipers.
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