I used sandpaper and roughed-up the ball area on the mirror, then took a punch and hammered around on the ball and edge of the socket. I took a 700 mile round trip over the weekend, and the mirrors did not move. I noticed that the ball is metal; hopefully this will begin to rust and provide further stability to the troublesome mounting. This seemed to work for me.
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yosemite333@HOTMAIL.COM wrote: > I'm sure this has been discussed many times but how do you prevent the > passenger mirror from moving when a truck passes youor it's windy. I've > taken it apart and there is a spring and a screw with a nut. Do you > tighten > the nut as tight as possible to get the mirror to stay in place? I've > tighten it before but that doesn't do the trick unless I need to really > tighten it. There must be an easy fix to this. > > 84 Westy > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail |
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