That was another fun experience, after just doing the clutch and power steering rack, the wiper motor further enforces my thought of what the designers where thinking..
Also, a quick note.. When your hand is on a sharper piece of sheet metal, and you feel a sharp tingling pain, it's probably not the sheet metal, it's probably your other hand that you decided the positive terminal of the battery would be a good support point for your hand...

 

HINT-HINT ; get some surgical rubber gloves at the parts store like all the mechanics use. Heavens they should get their hands dirty.

 

Why would you have had to be on the right side of the car? When I changed my wiper motor (one of the first things I worked on on this car) it was all done on the left side of the car and took all of 15 minutes.

 

Found it easier to reach from the left side to get the bolts for left side of the heater housing, and the left most support bolt for the wiper assembly.