Date:         Mon, 24 May 2010 20:31:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Michael Snow <slowmachine82@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Snow <slowmachine82@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: %^#%^* power mirror removal!
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
> About a month ago, I inquired on this list as to how to get the mirror out
> of a late-model vanagon housing. Someone sent me instructions to find the
> metal tabs holding the mirror in and bend them back, releasing the mirror.
>
> The only tabs I found were some flimsy copper-looking ones, (four of them)
> and they simply peeled back from the mirror glass with no effect.
>
> What is it again that I am supposed to be doing?
>
> Jim
>

If you're talking about the power mirrors, Bentley 66.2 shows the
parts and procedure.  You are looking for a plastic tab that is
vertically centered on each side of the mirror glass.  They are easy
to break.  When you are looking at the reflective side of the mirror,
the tabs turn the locking ring counterclockwise to unlatch and remove
the glass.  Push the outside edge of the mirror forward to gain better
access to the locking ring tab on the inner edge.  The next time that
I do it, I will try to soak the locking ring with WD-40 or something
similar to help break it free without breaking the plastic tabs.

--
Michael Snow
1987 Syncro TiiCo
1982 Westfalia 1.9TD
http://slowmachine82.blogspot.com/