I had mentioned in another thread of a different topic that I had a friend make a modification for me on my fairing mirrors... I had complained to him (a lot) that it was a constant P.I.T.A. to keep adjusting the mirrors while riding as they would continually "fold" in when I was driving faster than 40 MPH. I had gone through two sets of mirrors already and couldn't find a reason why the bolt in the base of the mirror was insufficien to hold the mirror in place while driving "at speed"... I had stripped two mirrors, loctited two and even tried epoxy in the ball area... all failed...
He took on of my stripped sets of mirrors back to work with him and decided that there was insufficient "clamping force" applied to the ball and socket when the bolt was tightened even if you removed the spring and used solid washers in it's place..
He decided that the mirror needed a real "nut and bolt" to keep in in place and he devised this fix:
He cut the top of the 90 degree arm and fashioned a stainless steel "nut" for the arm... after fitting it to the cut in the arm, he ground it down and polished it to what you see here.. (if you decide to do this for yourself be advised that the mirrors are cast from real CRAP and don't cut too much away to make the land for the nut)
I know this might not be something everyone can do for themselves, but it proved to be a great fix for the mirrors.... it worked so well that the spring was able to be reinserted and the tension is now correct that you can still adjust the mirrors but the won't adjust themselves until you hit over 100 MPH (which I only did to see how the would hold up at "speed")
Since he did the mod back in 1983 I haven't had to do anything to the mirrors except polish them and keep the glass clean......
Rich
He took on of my stripped sets of mirrors back to work with him and decided that there was insufficient "clamping force" applied to the ball and socket when the bolt was tightened even if you removed the spring and used solid washers in it's place..
He decided that the mirror needed a real "nut and bolt" to keep in in place and he devised this fix:
He cut the top of the 90 degree arm and fashioned a stainless steel "nut" for the arm... after fitting it to the cut in the arm, he ground it down and polished it to what you see here.. (if you decide to do this for yourself be advised that the mirrors are cast from real CRAP and don't cut too much away to make the land for the nut)
I know this might not be something everyone can do for themselves, but it proved to be a great fix for the mirrors.... it worked so well that the spring was able to be reinserted and the tension is now correct that you can still adjust the mirrors but the won't adjust themselves until you hit over 100 MPH (which I only did to see how the would hold up at "speed")
Since he did the mod back in 1983 I haven't had to do anything to the mirrors except polish them and keep the glass clean......
Rich