Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Sunvisor fitup with minor adjustments

 The old tart came without sunvisors when I bought it, excepting for a broken stalk on the drivers' side. So, I forked out quite a bit to buy new sunvisors and a pair of chrome rods to suit. I think they came from Dennis Carpenter. The chrome rods are very nice quality, but the sunvisors themselves are relatively cheap vinyl coated cardboard, probably just how the factory made them back in the day. 

I had some issues with inserting the rod into the hole and had to resort to filing some of the metal away to allow it to work into the slot for both visors.

The other thing was knocking out the passenger side section to fit. I just used a drill to drill out the four spotwelds holding the blocking plate and gently tapped it in with a hammer and chisel just enough to be able to reach in and pull it out before it fell all the way through. I used a pair of long nosed pliers. 







Check out the nice little action shot right here! It was a bit touch and go for a while as I seriously thought I was gonna lose that piece of metal, imagining that it would forever be lodged down the inside pillar of the window, but I was victorious in the end. 















And here is the finished result! Looks great and the colour compliments the interior very well. Pleased I didn't buy the black set. 





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