BigRichieO
Colorado Mopar
I did a search on this and couldnt find any posts about it. Im sure this fix is nothing ground breaking and wont be something that needs to be shown to everyone but I thought I would post it anyway, in hopes that it might help someone out. I used a soda can as a shim for mine and it worked great. Just traced the outline of the (I dont know what it is called) black piece and cut the aluminum and drilled the holes. When I put it all back together the first time I screwed everything down tight then tried to move the mirror arm part, this ended up being too tight and the aluminum tore. I made a second shim piece and moved the arm around as a tightened the screws this worked much better. I would guess if your mirror is really loose you could use two pieces to really sure it up. Hope this help someone out.
After the shim is in place the mirror is like new and will hold in any position that you need. As a kid there were all kinds of things that I used to try and sure up my rear view mirror, including all styles of tape, teflon, electrical, and duct, never resorted to gum or another sort of gooey substance for fear that in the summer it might melt down and get on the carpet. I wish that I would have just took the thing down and looked at it and I would have figured this out years ago and saved myself a bunch of frustration of a swinging mirror. Hope this helps someone out.
After the shim is in place the mirror is like new and will hold in any position that you need. As a kid there were all kinds of things that I used to try and sure up my rear view mirror, including all styles of tape, teflon, electrical, and duct, never resorted to gum or another sort of gooey substance for fear that in the summer it might melt down and get on the carpet. I wish that I would have just took the thing down and looked at it and I would have figured this out years ago and saved myself a bunch of frustration of a swinging mirror. Hope this helps someone out.
