Help with my '74 Carrera sun visors

steve meltzer · 01-08-2020, 07:01 PM

This should be easy, but I'm missing something. Perhaps someone can, once again, bail me out...the sunvisor on my car (and many others) has two screws on the corner mounting bracket and then a shaft to which the visor is mounted with a set screw. That shaft has a groove near it's end and an elevation/bump near the mounting point. I can't figure out how the groove, protrusion, and set screw all fit together. I got the visor mounted but it keeps falling down from it's high point folded against the headliner. What am I doing wrong here. The visor's plastic mounting point broke off and that's the reason for the R&R. Here are some pictures that might help. thanx steve

steve meltzer · 01-08-2020, 07:03 PM

oops this picture didn't make it. thanx. steve

nathanbs · nathanbs's Garage

My guess is that you do not have the visor pushed on the shaft far enough. This In my experience is when the visor flops down freely. Besides there being a metal clamp of sorts in the visor I’m not sure what the functionality of all of the aspects are.

steve meltzer · 01-08-2020, 10:22 PM

thanx so much. lert me check that tho' I thought I"d tried every permuatation and combination. steve

steve meltzer · 01-10-2020, 05:40 PM

Thank you Nathan...this turned out to be a "red herring" of sorts...all I really needed was the plastic piece that holds that "L" bracket/shaft to the headliner. As I studied this situation, I realized the shaft diameter of the old shaft was a bit thicker (I didn't measure) than the new one and once swapped, using the old, but thicker shaft with the new plastic mounting bracket, it worked great! So, I paid about $50 for a part, when all I really needed was the $5 portion that was the mounting bracket. Stoddard sells the plastic bracket, by itself, but they were back ordered, with no ETA for a new batch. ARGGHHH. thanx again. steve

nathanbs · nathanbs's Garage

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Originally Posted by steve meltzer

Thank you Nathan...this turned out to be a "red herring" of sorts...all I really needed was the plastic piece that holds that "L" bracket/shaft to the headliner. As I studied this situation, I realized the shaft diameter of the old shaft was a bit thicker (I didn't measure) than the new one and once swapped, using the old, but thicker shaft with the new plastic mounting bracket, it worked great! So, I paid about $50 for a part, when all I really needed was the $5 portion that was the mounting bracket. Stoddard sells the plastic bracket, by itself, but they were back ordered, with no ETA for a new batch. ARGGHHH. thanx again. steve

Glad to hear that you figured it out