Yep, rusted in place and that is why the tightening the spring isn't helping. Dennis ----- Original Message ----- From: Malcolm Stebbins Date: Sunday, September 17, 2006 10:01 am Subject: Re: tightening floppy manual exterior mirrors To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Clint Kolda > > > I took mine apart and installed a rubber garden hose washer in > the ball socket joint. > > This seems to work well even with cracked plastc at the base > of both mirrors. > > Clint: I am trying your suggestion here. I removed mirror, > then removed the 10 mm nut and the > (worthless) spring. There is now a cup-shapped washer on the > bolt that is keeping the base > attached to the mirror. This cup-shapped washer does not want > to come off, so that I can separate > the mirror and base, to get your suggested garden hose washer in > there. > Is the cup-shapped washer just rusted in place on mine?? did > yours come off easily??? > > Any further expanation would be appreciated. Thanks. Malcolm > (Halifax NS) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > |
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