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.