[6pack] These new sun visors suck

[im sloane]

Bob,
I wonder if the internal design on my original 69 visors is different? My internal foam was so gone, I could 'feel' the inner bar went down into the foam in a T shape. The outer bar can be removed. It apparently pushes into the inner bar in a male/female sort of configuration, and this is where the tension occurs. (no pun intended) I had attempted to reuse my original visors by filling them with "Great Stuff" expanding foam sealer. This actually worked pretty well, although not quite as pretty as I'd hoped. I'm honestly thinking about using them as is.

My brother has had issues with the new design visors. The passenger one rattles badly, and now it's inner bar has been pushed all the way in. We haven't taken it down to attempt to retrieve it. All the above is why I was skeptical of the new design. I do agree, they're better than nothing. It's too bad TRF doesn't ship them with the outer rod pre-bent. I think I'm just going to return them.

thanks all,
Sloane

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From: Robert Lang <robertlangtr6 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 11:13 AM
To: 6pack at autox.team.net <6pack at autox.team.net>; im sloane <im_sloane at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [6pack] These new sun visors suck

Hi - If you have one or more original sun visors that you can "donate" to research, pull out the bar and examine it closely. On my car (original owner), the bar had a slight curve to it over the length of the bar. When I got new visors way back (like at least 15 years ago), I pulled the bars out to transfer to the new visors and upon examination thought - "crud, somehow, I bent the bar" and proceeded to straighten it. Carefully. That sucker was arrow-straight by the time I was done re-forming it. I installed it in the car. Well, then the new visor just hung there in the down position and more or less just flopped around. I tried crimping the metal tube that's inside the visor with very limited success. Eventually, I put two and two together and realized the error in my ways - that I had straightened the metal bar and thus there was no tension to keep the visor from flapping / flopping.

Just as a warning - when I tried to crimp the metal tube, I would up making tooth marks from the pliers in the visor. Normally, I go for function over form, but for some reason those marks made me a little crazy. Well, crazier than normal. In any case, if you try to crimp do so with the caution that you might make noticeable marks in the visor. You've been warned.

To be honest, I'm really glad these became visors available again and I am grateful that TRF made the effort to make them available. 'Nuff sed. So, try to see if your old visor bars had that little hook in them and see if you can transfer that dimension to the new parts.

Regards,
Bob Lang
TR6's

On Sunday, February 2, 2020, 7:07:21 PM EST, im sloane via 6pack <6pack at autox.team.net> wrote:



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