Hey KC ( the Sun Shine Kid)
It's Your Fuel Pump!
The '55 has a Dual action Fuel Pump!
It operates both the Fuel and the Vacumne that operate the Wipers.
Todays Modern Fuels just eat up the original pressed tarpaper diaphrams, which create leaks in the system.
You probably have to get the pump rebuilt.
Since You are experiencing 2 problems that are initiated by one source, I would start there.
A lot of these problems are solved by the process of elimination.
Fix on source and them go to the next. If it doesn't work the first time, you have already replaced the part, it is new and you know that is fixed and you go to the next.
You have to rule out ALL Posibilities, One step at a time.
Tom Gallagher
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