Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 11:16:21 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Floppy mirror...any fixes that actually work?
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Thanks for the replies, all.
I got serious again this morning...re-drilled the central spring shaft
all the way through to the outside of the plastic and inserted another
'pin'....this time a larger diameter nail...and peened over the ends. That
solved (for now) the problem of the spring tension putting too much stress
on the post in order to gain enough friction to hold the mirror from
flopping. Then I buried a hard rubber O-ring between the two hemispheres
that the mirror is supposed to adjust around. That seems to have fixed it,
for now....but the test will come soon as the next Gorge Windy day...when I
am punching at 70mph into a 40mph headwind and a semi truck passes the other
way.......
It just irks me that most of the other Vanagon engineering is so
satisfactory (other than a few issues) and those mirrors seem to be a
'consumable' item....no good after a short time....like 20-odd years....
Don Hanson
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:43 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll second the rubber faucet washer fix.. That did it for mine.... plus I
> had these handy from replacing this in an actual leaky faucet at home...
>
> Tony
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > thin rubber washer with same technique works also.
> >
> > alistair
> >
> >
> > On 2011-09-05, at 7:40 PM, Rob wrote:
> >
> > > A fix that worked for me on the mirrors was to put a piece of emery
> > > paper between the two friction surfaces. I take it apart, cut the
> > > emery paper round to fit and put it back together. It works.
> > >
> > > Rob
> > > becida@comcast.net
> > >
> > >
> > > At 9/5/2011 06:27 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> > >> My 84s "Flag" stock manual mirror on the driver's side sucks. I had
> it
> > >> sort of fixed once, by drilling a small hole through the square post
> > inside
> > >> that is supposed to be the friction axis for the socket. Mine had
> > pulled
> > >> down from too much tension on the spring....That sort of worked, for a
> > >> little time...but eventually the pin I put through there
> bent....letting
> > the
> > >> spring post again slip down, losing tension on the spring...allowing
> > that
> > >> irritating mirror to blow back against the window with wind
> gusts...(and
> > >> there are plenty of wind gusts in the Columbia River Gorge) So I
> tried
> > >> peening the socket surface to give it more friction, and epoxied that
> > post
> > >> in after replacing the pin....."Flop!"....it hit the window again
> > tonight.
> >
>
>
>
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