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    2/06/2025 7:09 PM  #1

    6sally6
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    Out side mirror floppy-iness


    Other than going to THIS extreme....what's the cure for floppy out side mirrors, without full replscement
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    2/06/2025 8:15 PM  #2

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    Try a few drops of cyanoacrylate into the swivel ball.
    I haven’t tried that so use at your own discretion, might be permanent 🤪

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    2/06/2025 9:48 PM  #3

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    I used to have a pair on my 66 where I filled the gap between mirror and mounting arm with JBWeld, then painted  the epoxy silver. Drove it like that for years. Bought top quality new mirrors when I repainted. Now, ten years later, I need to get the JBWeld out again.

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    2/07/2025 1:59 AM  #4

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    MS wrote:

    I used to have a pair on my 66 where I filled the gap between mirror and mounting arm with JBWeld, then painted the epoxy silver. Drove it like that for years. Bought top quality new mirrors when I repainted. Now, ten years later, I need to get the JBWeld out again.

    That kinda reminds me of a kit you could buy many years ago that was basically some RTV in a tube connected to a hose with a zerk fitting end on it. If you had loose ball joints, you could jack up your car and pump the ball joints full of RTV, then let the car sit on jacks overnight. Once the RTV had set up you down jack the car and put a For Sale sign on it.
     

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    2/07/2025 6:43 AM  #5

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    I have had good luck with lock tight, just put some on the ball of the socket and move mirror around a few times, maybe add it on ball again then wipe of excess, set your mirror and seems to put just enough resistance that mirror stays put, and you can still move it around a little if need be. worked for the last 5 years on the old pony.

     

    2/07/2025 7:20 AM  #6

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    I'll second MS's suggestion for JBWeld. 
    Reminds me an old car I had years ago that the sun visor was extremely difficult to pivot down.  I took it off, sprayed some penetrating fluid down the rod, got the visor off the rod, cleaned the rod, put it all back together.  Success! … except now the visor wouldn’t stay up!
     

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    2/07/2025 10:22 AM  #7

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    I used an electric engraver to score the ball where it was accessible at its extremes (to score as much of the ball as practical). It stayed put after that, and was still adjustable.

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    2/07/2025 11:35 AM  #8

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    Ron68 wrote:

    MS wrote:

    I used to have a pair on my 66 where I filled the gap between mirror and mounting arm with JBWeld, then painted the epoxy silver. Drove it like that for years. Bought top quality new mirrors when I repainted. Now, ten years later, I need to get the JBWeld out again.

    That kinda reminds me of a kit you could buy many years ago that was basically some RTV in a tube connected to a hose with a zerk fitting end on it. If you had loose ball joints, you could jack up your car and pump the ball joints full of RTV, then let the car sit on jacks overnight. Once the RTV had set up you down jack the car and put a For Sale sign on it.
     

     

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    2/08/2025 4:59 AM  #9

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    I like it.  It looks right at home on the that car.

     

    2/08/2025 11:47 AM  #10

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    Re: Out side mirror floppy-iness

    The glass can be removed on some of them using heat (heat gun, oven, etc.) or solvent.  Once the glass is out, the joint in the rear of the housing can be peened to make it tighter.  A lot of people suggest using silicone to reattach the glass but I've found that it takes a long, long time to set up and doesn't adhere as well as hot melt glue.

    But of course, there's a video about this very subject

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