{"id":714,"date":"2011-05-27T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T06:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/?p=714"},"modified":"2023-03-12T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T22:05:12","slug":"loose-door-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/tech-tips\/loose-door-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"Loose Door Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The left hand door mirror has been rattling for a while. A search of the Corvette Forum<a href=\" http:\/\/forums.corvetteforum.com\/c4-corvettes-1984-1996-19\/ \"><\/a> soon provided the answer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an easy fix, but pictures always help.<\/p>\n<p>The mirror is held onto the motor by three points &#8211; the trunnion which is a mini UJ in the center, the threaded motor rod on the outside and a pivot at the center bottom.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-716\" href=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/tech-tips\/loose-door-mirror\/attachment\/olympus-digital-camera-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-716\" title=\"Back of Corvette Door mirror 1988\" src=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Back-4664-600x451.jpg\" alt=\"Back of Corvette Door mirror 1988\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s clipped in. With fingers behind the glass mirror it can be gently eased out of it&#8217;s clips. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the thin trunnion broke, or the clips fractured so it&#8217;s worth being very careful. Mine were held in very stiffly but I had no problems.,<\/p>\n<p>The motor is held by 3 screws to a frame and it was the frame that was loose and rattling.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the 3 large screws holding the motor onto the frame- circled in yellow.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-720\" href=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/tech-tips\/loose-door-mirror\/attachment\/motor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-720\" title=\"Corvette door mirror Motor\" src=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motor.jpg\" alt=\"Corvette door mirror Motor\" width=\"399\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motor.jpg 399w, http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Motor-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the motor was removed I could see the 3 screws holding the frame and they were all loose. I removed and cleaned them then retightened them<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-725\" href=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/tech-tips\/loose-door-mirror\/attachment\/olympus-digital-camera-4\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Corvette Loose Door Mirror\" src=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Inners-64662.jpg\" alt=\"Corvette Loose Door Mirror\" width=\"598\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Inners-64662.jpg 598w, http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-content\/uploads\/Inners-64662-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a>Pressing the mirror back into it&#8217;s clips, especially the top of the trunnion, required more force than I expected. All went back OK and no more rattling noise from a loose door mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left hand door mirror has been rattling for a while. A search of the Corvette Forum soon provided the answer. It&#8217;s an easy fix, but pictures always help. The mirror is held onto the motor by three points &#8211; the trunnion which is a mini UJ in the center, the threaded motor rod on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robhealey.com.au\/Corvette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}