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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf > of > Jim Muller > Sent: Fri 3/7/2008 5:49 PM > To: [email protected] > 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. > > -- > Jim Muller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ > [email protected] > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires > > http://www.team.net/archive > _______________________________________________ > > Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html > > [email protected] > http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires > > http://www.team.net/archive > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.6/1317 - Release Date: 3/7/2008 > 8:15 AM _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
