must be your altitudeover there in Bend.

try roughing up the metal hemisphere washer.
or use something stickier like the contact cement you mentioned.

or maybe when you tighten down the nut it's stipping or the stud is
pulling out ..
like you are not getting really good tension going on that short spring
in there.
A spacer washer was suggested too.

On 9/6/2013 6:28 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> I did that. It slid around like it was sliding on grease.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 09/06/2013 03:54 PM, Scott Daniel wrote:
>> take the mirror off and apart on the bottom.
>> get that hemisphere washer out. ( somethimes they're stuck in there )
>> coat Both Sides of it nicely with Permatex High Tack gasket sealer.
>> Reassemble.
>> tighten the 10mm nut as tightly as you dare. ( eventually it'll put the
>> stud right out of the mirror if it's old your you tighten too much. )
>>
>> 'usually' this works.
>> it'll move slightly when you need it too, but not when you don't want it
>> to.
>> Even new ones need this treatment in my experience.
>>
>>
>> On 9/6/2013 3:45 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>> Other than buying and installing power mirrors.
>>>
>>> Yes, this subject has been done to death but I'm not getting anywhere.
>>>
>>> I've tried the garden hose washer trick. I've tried using some
>>> high-tack
>>> gasket compound. I'm about at the stage of gumming everything together
>>> with contact cement.
>>>
>>> Is there anything that actually works?
>>>
>>> Someone wrote about drilling a hole and driving in a pin or something.
>>>
>>> Not that I don't mind seeing the rear tire in the passenger side
>>> mirror.
>>> Except when looking to see if I can change lanes.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>>> Bend, Ore.
>>>
>>
>