thin rubber washer with same technique works also.

alistair

On 2011-09-05, at 7:40 PM, Rob wrote:

> 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.