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Re: [Spits] Sun visor concerns

To: <Mackmi@usa.redcross.org>, <jimmuller@rcn.com>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Spits] Sun visor concerns
From: "Grant Buss" <buss3@rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 23:34:04 -0500
When I had my car apart I saw that sun visor shaft had a slight bend in it , 
so I straightened it. Visor flopped down. I put the bend back. Problem 
solved.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Mackmi@usa.redcross.org>
To: <jimmuller@rcn.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Spits] Sun visor concerns


>i fixed mine from falling years ago, this is what you do:
> Remove the pivot rods from the visor.  Take a center punch and hammer 
> dozens
> of dents in each of the rods. all the way around.  then apray it with 
> clear
> paint so it wont rust.  The re-surfacing of the rods, adds the right 
> texture
> to keep the visors from drooping.
> mike Mack
> 79 Spit
> 70 GT6
> 74 VW Thing
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spitfires-bounces+mackmi=usa.redcross.org@autox.team.net on behalf 
> of
> Jim Muller
> Sent: Fri 3/7/2008 5:49 PM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Spits] Sun visor concerns
>
> On 7 Mar 2008 at 22:35, John Macartney wrote:
>
>> Has anyone worked out a way of how to
>> re-tension the sun visor to stop it flip-flopping
>> about its screen monted stay?
>
> My experience has been that the problem is the other way around, how
> to get it to move at all after it has rusted sufficiently inside.
>
> Which I'm sure you know this already, but if you remove the visor
> from the windshield frame you can remove the rods.  They are just
> single-ended rods stuck into spring-like brackets, so you can just
> pull them out.  So you should be able to squeeze together the clips
> inside the leading edge of the visor to make them grip the rod
> tighter.
>
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