Driver side visor will no longer stay 'up'. Tried various things to make it stay in place: among them being velcro to visor and roof, but the glue fails in our Texas heat. Tried Goop adhesive, but it too fails. Anyone have a fix for this drooping visor? Thanks

 

Swap to 87-96 visors.You'll have to drill 4 holes in your roof,but the 87-96 visors have little clip things that the visor sits in to hold it still.I tired to retrofit the clips to our visors,but there's no way.

 

Thanks for that. Never considered clips. I'll check out the Dorman display to see what I can mcgyver to work. Passenger side is as good as it was 29yrs ago....of course it's near unused in all that time too...

 

I can use duct tape and bailing wire and make you a new one!!!

 

I just had this thought pop in my head...

There isnt a way to open up the visor and slip in a magnet of some sort is there? Since our roofs are metal and this way you wouldnt have to worry about the glue or such from failing it might be a good solution if you can figure a way to slip in a magnet.

 

The visor arm failed and you need a new one.

They are replaceable seperate from the visor itself.

Be aware that the visor arm will fail again sooner or later due to the lack of a center support. This is why the 1987-1991/1992-1996 have center clips.

Part Number: E0TZ-1004144-A

 

I just had this thought pop in my head...

There isnt a way to open up the visor and slip in a magnet of some sort is there? Since our roofs are metal and this way you wouldnt have to worry about the glue or such from failing it might be a good solution if you can figure a way to slip in a magnet.
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Excellent idea! The metal being in the Sun just gets too hot for any glue/epoxy to hole so....

What I intend doing: finally a use for those pita calendars/advertisements/etc. that have strip-magnets to adhere to a refrigerator. Remove the strip of magnet, hot glue it to the visor...voila!

The issue isn't the arm, but the visor being loose in the tube of the visor. I tried 'compacting' it a little more, but I don't want to damage the hide. The magnet idea should work great! Will advise upon completion. Thanks!

 

Here's a quicky solution. Fridge magnet that has a clip for holding notes. Use the clip to hold onto the visor, and the magnet to hold it up. Simple, no custom work needed, and can be used in many different applications.....

 

That's an awesome idea. I think I've even got a couple of them at home. I'm going to try that tonight.

 

I bought some visors out of an 87 and put them in with the clip from the junkyard. they were $5 each but no more saggy visors.

 

smashclash, I think that will be what I eventually end up doing.

 

If that's the case, then you can, Remove the visor arm, wrap the visor with a towel or soft material, and hit the long "c" clip inside the visor with a rubber mallet or squeeze it together with pliers. Do this gently as you can close the "c" clip too much. Then reinstall the visor arm.

You can't get the visor to grab the visor arm any tighter with it still in the visor etc...

 

Nice thought, however, I don't think even a powerful rare earth magnet would hold them up through a head liner in the upper trim levels. At least one thats small enough to bury in the visor.

For giggles, I just took a 1" dia, 1" long 3 pole rare earth magnet and stuck it to my head liner, it wouldn't even hang on it's own ... Yet, set this magnet on my surface plate and you almost cannot get it off!

It's a 3 pole aluminum cased high pull rare earth magnet, I don't remember the exact max pull poundage but it's over 100 lbs ...

They are what we use to lock down chassis setup & alignment fixtures on the surface plate.

-Enjoy
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headliner....whatzit?