Instructional Fix: Floppy Sun Visors
 

Ever since owning this car, the sun visors have been super floppy, & would fall down on their own while I would drive. Very annoying. I'd have to shimmy the ball & socket joint upward to prevent them from flopping into my view. Here's my fix!

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Here's what it does, the ball just loosely glides around in the joint. Factory, this "degree of freedom" should not exist. It should only be able to rotate 90* to block the sun when it comes through your door window.

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Remove your visor

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Note the raised "mohawk" on the plastic. This is the guiding course for a small pin which has sheared off the ball joint.

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Inside view. The ball's cast, so it's quite brittle, and finally this pin has sheared off after years of use. You can see the housing which it should sit in.

Up next, we're going to re-make it.

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Grind off where the pin sheared, making a nice flat spot for easy drilling.

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Freshly ground surface.

Instructions continued
 

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Center drilling of the ball joint, with joint/visor clamped in a vise. Drilling on a drill press

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Undersize drilling for an M4-.7mm thread tap

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Tapping

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My newly threaded hole

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M4-.7 mm set screw. (I used this because I make yoyos for a living, and it is the common size axle for all modern yoyos. 6-32 & 8-32 will work also, as will interferance fitting a piece of metal dowel

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Set screw now ground to approx. length of the original peg

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FINISHED!!!

Now you can enjoy driving your car with one less minor small annoyance to bug you, and keep you from smiling while "owning the road".

Enjoy

So when does the group buy start for this service? Cuz I for one don't have those tools @ my disposal...

Great thread!

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