Found nothing in a search. So here it goes.
My passenger side rear view mirror decided to come loose whilst going down the road. Wires held and mirror is ok. I bought some black RTV sealant. My question is: do I need to scrape off all the old sealant where the motors are or can I clean it up with alcohol and go from there?
Thanks
I would clean them thoroughly before RTVing,
especially if silicone was used initially.
Contact Ramco-- this number is a couple of years old, but may still be accurate:
Ramco (mirrors) 800 321-4819
Can you post a pic, Jerry? Odd there are no screws holding the mirror on, or is it just the glass part that came loose? :o Glad to hear you've got the coach out, though! b^.^d
Just the glass mirror which is mounted on an aluminum sheet and that then is stuck to the round apparatus that has two adjustment motors. I'll try and take a picture of the offending items.
You got lucky Bigdog.
There's a bridge on I-84 just east of the I-81/ I-84 split near Scranton, PA that has expansion joints at each end that that are real rim-benders.
A few years ago as I hit the first joint my driver's side mirror became detached and was doing aerobatics with just the wires holding it. Before I could pull over it finally broke the wires and the mirror went sailing off into the median.
I pulled over as soon as possible and walked back to get my mirror only to find so much debris (ie: mirrors, hubcaps, litter, etc.) that it was impossible to locate it.
Halfway across the Will Rogers turnpike in OK my passenger side started flopping around and fell out before I could get over. It was still hanging by the wires and zip ties with duct tape got me home. I used black silicone after completely cleaning the back of it and filled the gaps between the mounting bracket and the glass so the wind would not try to separate the two.
Len
I just ended up scraping off all the old sealant I could and applied a liberal amount of new black goo, Put a spacer under the bottom edge and put a folded towel on the mirror then wrapped it with a self sticking ace bandage. Tomorrow will tell the tale if that was the thing to do. Also did a sodium Dichlor water system clean out as the coach hasn't been used for a long time.
I neglected to say that my mirrors were new replacements, only six months old. Velvac sent me a new one.