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Triumph TR6 - Passenger mirror

I hope I don't piss off the poster of this but he is a nice idea for a fix for those passenger side bullitt mirrors .
Don
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After a couple years of cheap stick-on convex plastic mirrors, today I found the perfect fix. My less-than-favorite Wallymart sells a stick on 3 3/4" mirror made by Hot Spots for $1.50. When I took it out of its plastic mount, with just a little careful effort, I found that it was glass. By pressing in on the bullit mirror glass it goes in 1/4" and the white ring can be removed and then the glass and spring. The new convex glass is the exact same diameter. Stretch the spring out about 1/8", slip it back in with its plastic cap, slip in the new mirror, slip in the white ring, and in that 5 minutes it's a done deal""
Steve
DON KELLY

Don,
This needs more explanation for a dummy like me. Is he saying to take the mirror out of the chrome bullet and replace with this convex mirror?? I don't follow the white ring, the glass and the spring. HELP.
db
Doug Baker

Doug- I was hoping someone could help me?
DON KELLY

Don,
If you're adjusting your mirrors, does that mean the 6 is close to ready for the road? ;) Are you coming to McMinnville?
Rod
Rod Nichols

HUH?
Springs...no wounder my mirrors do not work.
Rick C
Rick Crawford

Rick- If I remember right. When mine fell off the car and broke apart on the road, there are a couple of springs inside the glass enclosure.
Rod- Progress very slow, Don't know my summer plans yet. Still trying to work in a vacation for the family.
DON KELLY

If anyone has "rebuilt" a mirror, I'd surely be interested in how. My chromed bullet mirror, native to my '71 is restorable for the chrome and the mirror glass is OK, but the white ring (Plastic?) is shot after 34+ years. I'd rather restore mine than buy new. Indeed, I've been leaning toward the black mirrors available from Rimmers Bros. etc, but would reconsider if I could replace the ring. I disassembled the mirror from the back but see no way w/o destroying the ring to remove it from the front and like Rick,...what springs??
db
Doug Baker

My driver side mirror was come without the white ring. It was rattling in side the housing. I went to a industrial plastic store got myself a foot of 1/8" round black rubber. I just stuffed it between the mirror and housing with a deb of glue. never have any problem for the last 2 years.
I used black cause I didn't know it should be white. It need 13" of length to do the job. Now my black ring has a 1/4" of gap.
hope this help
Paddy
Paddy Kan

The mirror on my '71 also rattled within the housing. After pulling it apart (yes, there was a spring) it was easy to re-seat the parts and restore the mirror.

I liked the idea of a convex mirror for wider angle view and found a cheap glass one the right size. Different, but I like it.

Charlie
EC Smith

Charlie,
Gotta go look at that mirror again.
db
Doug Baker

I tried pushing in on my mirror last night and it is held in by a spring. I was able to push the mirror in by about 1/4 in. I didn't remove the ring holding it in as I wasn't sure I would be able to get everything back together again. I am planning on adding a right hand side mirror to my car and the idea of a wide angle sounds interesting. I will have to look at it more closely.

Sylvain
S Demers

I am not quite sure why you guys are so interested in looking at where you have been.
:)
Rick C
Rick Crawford

It's not where we've been. It's who we are leaving behind. ;-)

Sylvain
S Demers

Or who's catching up to you...

http://members.tripod.com/pdog12/Rear_window_view_police.jpg

;)
Don from Jersey

A picture you took DON?....:)
Rick C
Rick Crawford

Alright, I revisted my mirror and tried to "push" the lens in against some supposed spring...nothing doing. The mirror glass is firmly fixed in the bezel with a deteriorating white, now chalky, used to be plastic type, thingy around the perimeter. I disassembled the "cone" from the "bullet" but only could see the back of the glass with what appeared to be a net or catch all kinda like a plastic net or fingers behind the glass...no spring. What am I missing here?
db
Doug Baker

Doug- Maybe a different mirror. There are probably umpteen hundred different makers in the 30+ years they have been out. Remember alot of other cars use this style. Don't think your s is the black sheep of family.
don
DON KELLY

Rick,

Not a picture I took. I haven't been pulled over since 1986 when a cop got my in my TR7. To this day feel I wasn't doing anything wrong. He just wanted a look at an '81 fuel injected maroon Triumph convertable. I should have put the thing in storage had I knew how few FI models there were and the fact that this was to be the end of the line...
Don from Jersey

OK Don, so I have a different mirror. So how the hell do I get the glass out to rechrome the dumb thing? This is the driver's side. No passenger side. I guess I'm back to getting those cute little black retangular ones that I've seen on several restorations, probably from Rimmer Bros. That'll cost me on concours for sure.
db
Doug Baker

Doug
Are you sure the cost of re-chrome is not the same or more than new one(s)?
Besides, the new ones might have a spring in them and you will no longer be the odd ball:)
These mirrors can be picked up at (auto) flee markets sometimes.
Rick C
Rick Crawford

Doug- I'm with Rick (that's a switch) If you are thinking of rechroming how about thinking out of the box and have them painted body color?
don
DON KELLY

I disagree with Don ( that's normal).
Rick C
Rick Crawford

I put a set of nice new Bullit mirrors on mine for about 70 dollars each. Way cheaper then chroming and if it's pitted forget it. I think I'll look into the convex mirror for the right side though; it's really useless right now. I also replaced the door handles liscence plate lamp cover and emblem holder with new. They are perfect copies and way cheaper then replating Regards John
John O'Meara

John
The bullet mirrors do ONLY one thing...look nice.
If you want them to actually do something, then yes the convex mirrors.
Rick C
Rick Crawford

Six years ago, when I bought my 74 TR6, one of the first "discoveries" I found was that the O ring from the old canister oil filter is an exact replacement for the white pastic ring on the bullit mirrow.
One of my first modifications to my 6 was converting to a spin-on oil filter. I saved the old o rings. I don't remember if it was the inner or outer o ring that fits into the mirrow, but I was pleasantly surprised that it works, and is till in there today.
John Korsak

This thread was discussed between 31/05/2006 and 19/06/2006

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