Aero Mirrors - My Turn

[widebody911]

I was sitting around this afternoon, nothing to do but taxes, when a friend dropped by to show me the 'new' mirrors he got for his M3 - some punk-ass kids stole the originals, along with his front bumper (they even have it on security video, but can't do diddly with it).

He asked me when I was going to install my new mirrors. I'm famous now for buying stuff and not installing it (930S wheel, Sherwood Shifter, DSL router....) So, I dragged out the box cracked a couple beers and took a look.

Of course, I didn't bother to look anything up here first - flying blonde.

I'd heard that there was some spring or other that was a b!tch to install, and figured it was the valvespring-looking bit. Figured out where it was supposed to go, and decided there was no way in he11 I would ever be able to get that together by hand.

So, how to fab a spring compressor for it? About an hours worth of head scratching, trial, & error and I came up with:


A step-by-step pic essay (no text yet) of how to compress the spring is at

http://vintagebus.com/howto/mirror

I'm sure others (John Walker?) have come up with ways to do this as well. With the right tool, it's effortless.