Ancient mystery of loose outside chrome mirrors solved!!!
 

Well, I think I have found the way to solve this issue for good. In the first pic, you can see the metal plate that was held in with two screws over the ball of the mirror arm, and the now broken white nylon washer that was between the plate and the ball. I replaced the nylon washer with a slightly thicker rubber washer that I found in the plunbing isle of Home Depot, all I had to do to the rubber washer was drill the same size hole through it as the nylon washer, 19/64" . In the second pic, you can see the finished product. to remove the glass,I soaked the miror in laquer thinner overnight, and then used a razor blade to pry the glass off. All I have left to do is glue the glass back in with silicon adhesive, and voila....a mirror that very stable.

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http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c3/7t2vette/mirror1.jpg
http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c3/7t2vette/mirror2.jpg


[Modified by 7t2vette, 10:59 PM 5/21/2004]

Re: Ancient mystery of loose outside chrome mirrors solved!!! (7t2vette)
 

Be sure to post this in the Factory Correct section. This problem has popped up over there before....


Nice fix BTW.... :thumbs:

Re: Ancient mystery of loose outside chrome mirrors solved!!! (Desertdawg)
 

thats one smart trick!!
meny people gonna be happy about that!!

Re: Ancient mystery of loose outside chrome mirrors solved!!! (7t2vette)
 

Hi

Well done. Make sure you use special mirror silicone as ordinary one will possibly attack the mirror silver coating.

Gunther

Re: Ancient mystery of loose outside chrome mirrors solved!!! (WESCH)
 

Thanks for the tip gunther, I didn't even know there was a special adhesive for mirrors, I will have to look for it. :cheers: