I know you can adjust the up/down stiffness with the screw, but what about front to back? I've had this problem for years and its finally gotten bad enough to really annoy me. Any time I gun it, the sun visor hits my passenger in the head. Sometimes its amusing, but the joke has gotten old, lol. Is their any way to tighten this up. When I take it out I see a spring which I believe is the only thing giving tension to the shaft to create stiffness. Short of replacing the part, is their a way to fix this?
I have the same problem, and haven't figured out how to cure it, though I haven't tried to hard either. Putting the visor back during a tame 2.1 second 60ft.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1964-72-bui...ick|Model:Skylark&vxp=mtr&hash=item519b925da4 These seem to get brittle and break over time. I use 1/4 inch rubber hose cut to fit on mine and it works great.o No:
Thanks for posting, thats a funny picture. I guess I should use those nubs to hold the visor in place. Mine were recovered and they don't fit in there well.
Those "nubs" are for conv models which have the visors lock/clip into the rear view mirror holder.....can you provide a pic of your visors?
George, my nubs are in good shape, but for some reason when its in the position where it engages the holder the sun visor wants to fall down. I think the shaft is scored in that area. So what I've done is push it all the way forward until it hits the windshield. Then it stays up, but now the back and forth is a problem. I guess I just need to get new shafts. What year cars used these? I would assume 71-80s full size GM.
Isnt there a nut on top of that spring? If there is tighten it up. if not there has to be some sort of keeper. Try removing it and placing a washer under it and replace keeper to tension the spring.
It looks like a large rivet, so I might have to drill it out to get the spring off, and then I don't know if I would be able to re-rivet it. But good idea.
