Date:         Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:20:17 -0800
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Left-hand mirror
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At 04:22 PM 11/15/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Tightening the bolt is definitely the first step ---- until the black
>plastic around the ball starts to crack. Then you're in for a new mirror,
>though a hose clamp around the cracking plastic will keep you going until
>you find one.
>
>Cheers,
>Doug
>
>If they are the same as our 1982, all youze has to do is remove them,
>tighten the nut under the base, and put them back on. Took me about 15
>minutes to do both sides.
>
>Now, out to the driveway with you...How fast can you do it?
>
>G. Matthew Bulley
>
>Does anyone have a left-hand rear-view mirror for an '84? These tend to
>get flop-eared with age...
>
>Thanks,
>Sam
>
AND, when all the above eventually fails (will happen), do the following:

Whilst tightening the nut, there's a good chance at some point you'll be
pulling the threaded stud out of the socket (it's a straight-shanked hex
that has NO flanges to lock it in the plastic!).  Solution - use a tiny
hammer to tap the stud back up into the plastic socket (remove the nut &
spring, put a nut back on the end so you don't bugger the threads), then
'eyeball' where you should drill a 1/8" hole clean thru the plastic socket
AND the stud (best done w/ a drill press & vice).  Then tap in a 1/8" dowel
pin, preferably SST, & you're done forever (10 yrs+ so far on Moby's!)

Austin

premature for Friday - 'will also work on right hand mirrors....'