Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:30:34 -0700
Reply-To: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Mirror replacement alternative: tightening (was Re: Truck
Mirrors Installation - Pics Needed - Advice)
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Yes, you are correct, too much tightening will pull the bolt out of ball joint. I fixed it this way: using a drill press, I bored a 1/8" hole through the plastic, through the ball, through the bolt, and out the plastic on the other side. Inserted a 1/8" dia x 1 1/8 long stainless steel dowel pin through the hole, "pinning" the bolt into the ball (doesn't even have to be perfectly centered). Worked GREAT, now I can tighten to proper tension, nor more floppy mirror. Worked so well (and was so easy and cheap to do) I did it on the other mirror, too. Been that way now for 4 years. Can barely see the hole when the dowel pin is inserted....it's flush with the surface.
Rich
85 GL with "normal" mirrors
San Diego
--- On Wed, 4/28/10, Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
From: Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Mirror replacement alternative: tightening (was Re: Truck Mirrors Installation - Pics Needed - Advice)
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 1:39 AM
You may also use a thin flat rubber washer inside that ball joint to
help keep the mirror in place. If you tighten the nut too much the
bolt will pull out of the ball joint. The rubber washer adds a bit of
friction and reduces the amount of required tightening.
2010/4/27, Mike South <msouth@gmail.com>:
> I bought a set of mirrors when I was just starting my restoration.
> When I opened the new mirror I looked inside the mount and saw a nut
> there that looked like it might increase the tension on the ball
> joint. I pulled off my old mirror and lo'n'behold, it had one o' them
> nuts, too. I tightened it, put it back on, and it quit blowing back
> to the window when in high wind or highway.
>
> mike
>
> (pmail me if you are in the market for a set of opened, but otherwise
> completely unused mirrors.)
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Donna Skarloken <dskarloken@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Can anyone point me in the direction of a good picture of a Vanagon with
>> the
>> truck mirrors installed?
>>
>> My husband is going to attempt to install these today (we have the old
>> crummy broken plastic ones, so really need to be replaced). He said he
>> has
>> to go buy installation screws; there were none included.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Donna, 87 Syncro 7 passenger
>>
>
--
Chris S.
"No solution is too complex to be executed incorrectly"
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