[DeTomaso] Viagra for sun visors?

[Chris Difani]

......and if  you have a really difficult time with fixing your visors, I'll be glad to come over and "give you a hand".... 

.......besides, I've already practiced on Mikey's..... 


Chris "The Paw" Difani

Chris

Chris Difani
'73 L #5829 "LITNNG"
The Electric Pantera
Sacramento, CA
Email: cdifani at pacbell.net 


PS: See if I fix anything else on your car ever again.... 


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: <charlesmccall at gmail.com>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Viagra for sun visors?


> 
> In a message dated 7/21/07 2:43:48 AM, charlesmccall at gmail.com writes:
> 
> 
>> 
>> Only the drivers side has this problem, of course. Tighten up the screws
>> that hold the pin? Remove and apply some sort of thick grease? Any ideas?
>> 
> 
> The pin is pressed into the plastic housing; the screw in the visor provides 
> friction.   The visor is supposed to pivot on the pin, while the pin remains 
> fixed.
> 
> You can, of course, try tightening the screw.   Don't go overboard, or you 
> will tweak the visor.   What is *probably* happening is that your pins have come 
> adrift, and are spinning in the plastic housing.   Thus, all the 
> screw-tightening in the world won't make them work properly.   If this is the case, you 
> can *carefully* remove the pin from the housing and then epoxy it back into 
> place.   This presumes the housing hasn't actually broken, but these things 
> age-harden and can crack and fall apart.   Although my Pantera visor pin housing are 
> fine (17 years spent in the darkness of a garage does wonders for extending 
> the longevity of such parts!), the ones in my daily driver Sciroccos are 
> brittle to the extreme.   
> 
> I got to watch one literally explode awhile back.   It was an awesome sight.  
> I was giving a ride to Chris Difani; he raised his massive hand to reach for 
> the visor, and I thought it was a sudden, unannounced solar eclipse.   He 
> wrapped his hand around his visor and yanked on it, trying to reposition it, not 
> realizing that it was fixed in place (that is, due to the failure of the 
> original-style inner clip, replaced with a fixed clip, it now works like a Pantera 
> visor, pivoting but not disconnecting to swing around to the side).   Well, 
> the plastic was no match for that awesome force, and soon there was a mighty 
> crack and a shower of white plastic bits on my face.
> 
> My visor once again pivots now. :>)
> 
> So anyway, hopefully you can fix your visor mounts, presuming that the cause 
> is the pins coming loose and not simply an adjustment issue.   If your mounts 
> are totally shot, the good news is that Hall Pantera years ago tooled up to 
> replicate these things in billet aluminum with steel pins.   That's a lifetime 
> fix.   They don't look quite the same (the stock ones are rounded and 'soft' 
> looking, to preclude injury in an accident, while the Hall ones are squared-off 
> and sharp, presumably to teach you a lesson for smashing up your Pantera), are 
> available in a variety of colors (but not the stock cream color), and 
> reportedly work great!
> 
> Mike
> 
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