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Subject:Re: tightening floppy manual exterior mirrors
From:Malcolm Stebbins
Date:Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:58:53 -0700

Clint Kolda <clint_kolda@YAHOO.COM>

> I took mine apart and installed a rubber garden hose washer in the ball socket joint.
> This seems to work well even with cracked plastc at the base of both mirrors.

Clint:  I am trying your suggestion here.  I removed mirror, then removed the 10 mm nut and the
(worthless) spring.  There is now a cup-shapped washer on the bolt that is keeping the base
attached to the mirror.  This cup-shapped washer does not want to come off, so that I can separate
the mirror and base, to get your suggested garden hose washer in there.

Is the cup-shapped washer just rusted in place on mine??  did yours come off easily???

Any further expanation would be appreciated.  Thanks.  Malcolm (Halifax NS)

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