| Sun Visor or ??? [message #153598] |
Mon, 19 December 2011 20:19  |
amdgmcman
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Location: Long Beach, CA
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Greetings,
The sun visor on the passenger side froze up and fell apart on me. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement or ????
Thanks
AMDGMCMan
Alan M DeLuccio
78 Royale with
Coachmen,Center Kitchen Floorplan
09 Harley Davidson Street Glide
65 Corvair Monza Convertible
96 RAV4 2 door Manual 4WD
Long Beach, CA
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| Re: Sun Visor or ??? [message #153599 is a reply to message #153598] |
Mon, 19 December 2011 20:28  |
Bob de Kruyff
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| amdgmcman wrote on Mon, 19 December 2011 19:19 |
Greetings,
The sun visor on the passenger side froze up and fell apart on me. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement or ????
Thanks
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This comes up once in a while and other than a part-out coach I'm not aware of anything. Other than moving to Michigan (which I wouldn't wish on anyone) you may want to keep your eye on ebay since I have seen them there.
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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| Re: [GMCnet] Sun Visor or ??? [message #153619 is a reply to message #153598] |
Mon, 19 December 2011 21:24 |
Ken Henderson
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Alan,
I disassembled mine (before they completely fell apart) and replaced the
rigid cardboard with 1/8" masonite. Then covered them with landau roof
padding (closed cell foam rubber sheeting) and had them recovered at an
auto upholstery shop. Now if the arm's broken, you've got to have a junk
part.
Ken H.
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Alan M DeLuccio wrote:
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> The sun visor on the passenger side froze up and fell apart on me. Does
> anyone know where I can get a replacement or ????
> Thanks
> --
>
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| Re: [GMCnet] Sun Visor or ??? [message #153629 is a reply to message #153619] |
Mon, 19 December 2011 21:45 |
amdgmcman
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A while ago he visor hadn't frozen onto the arm but had severely stiffened when trying to lower it. I used to carefully) grab the top, (where it swivels) and move the whole assembly so that I could still lower it. While driving I couldn't do this unless I stopped of course, so eventually the cardboard tore away and the metal piece that rotates on the arm tweaked and now is frozen and will not rotate. The rigid cardboard is history. The lighted mirror will not attach to the cardboard any longer. I've taken the visor off where the arm attaches to the ceiling, and cut the wires for the light. I have removed the vinyl covered cardboard to reveal the twisted and frozen metal that is frozen to the arm. I suppose I could try the piece of masonite. How did you attach it to the arm?
Thanks,
AMDGMCMan
Alan M DeLuccio
78 Royale with
Coachmen,Center Kitchen Floorplan
09 Harley Davidson Street Glide
65 Corvair Monza Convertible
96 RAV4 2 door Manual 4WD
Long Beach, CA
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| Re: [GMCnet] Sun Visor or ??? [message #153665 is a reply to message #153629] |
Tue, 20 December 2011 00:17 |
Len Novak
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I have rebuilt several of those. Remove the metal piece from the arm and
remove the staples from the metal piece. Once I removed the metal piece
from the arm I removed all the rust from both pieces, cleaned and lubricated
them and put them back together.
I replaced the cardboard with a piece of Pergo I had lying around and
attached it to the metal piece with pop rivets, rewrapped the entire
assembly with the original vinyl covering and my wife sewed the whole mess
together.
So far, on both coached I owned, no problems or with the visors I did on two
other coaches.
Len and Pat
1978 Kingsley
The Beast II with dash lights that work and labels you can see!
Fallbrook, CA
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=4375
www.bdub.net/novak/
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Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Sun Visor or ???
A while ago he visor hadn't frozen onto the arm but had severely stiffened
when trying to lower it. I used to carefully) grab the top, (where it
swivels) and move the whole assembly so that I could still lower it. While
driving I couldn't do this unless I stopped of course, so eventually the
cardboard tore away and the metal piece that rotates on the arm tweaked and
now is frozen and will not rotate. The rigid cardboard is history. The
lighted mirror will not attach to the cardboard any longer. I've taken the
visor off where the arm attaches to the ceiling, and cut the wires for the
light. I have removed the vinyl covered cardboard to reveal the twisted and
frozen metal that is frozen to the arm. I suppose I could try the piece of
masonite. How did you attach it to the arm?
Thanks,
--
AMDGMCMan
Alan M DeLuccio
78 Royale with
Coachmen,Center Kitchen Floorplan
09 Harley Davidson Street Glide
65 Corvair Monza Convertible
Long Beach, CA
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1978 GMC Kingsley
The Beast II with dash lights that work and labels you can see!
Las Vegas, NV new email: B52sRule@Gmail.com
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showgallery.php?cat=4375
www.bdub.net/novak/
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