Rear view mirror vibration?

[JJHACK]

The mirror vibrates quite a bit blurring out, especially noticeable at night with the car behind mine's headlights. All I need to do it lightly touch it with my finger tip and it's rock steady. Is there a tightening adjustment on these? It's a stock original 1977 mirror.

 

[remorris]

Does it have the rubber standoff between the stem and windshield?

 

[bikersmurf]

Is the mount to the frame tight?

 

[JJHACK]

I checked to see it was tight, but still had vibration. Thats why I posted this. However I just took the whole thing apart and see that there is a cork gasket of some sort there. Looks like it was cut with scissors not factory? I will try without this and then I'll try with a thicker rubber one I can cut out. The Mirror is the QD type that snaps off the windscreen mounted bracket

 

[bsevans]

It did the same thing on my '78 because the rubber brace was missing and I refused to pay what Toyota wanted. I went to Home Depot and bought two pieces of clear tubing; one that had the correct ID to fit over the pin at the back of the rear view mirror and one that the ID allowed the OD of the smaller tube to slide into. I then cut to the right length. I did this over 10 years ago and have had no blurred vision from the rear view mirror since.

 

[overton]

Rear View Mirror Asborber

An often missing and difficult part to find is the good old rear view mirror rubber absorber. I usually just cut a piece of fuel line tubing or something like that to take it's place but here is, the $11.00 elusive piece of rubber in all it's glory. When you go out to looking for one of these, you probably have a pretty nice restored FJ40 in the garage.

I assume this was an engineering afterthought or fix at Toyota since the vehicle design goals should not be having so much vibration as to make your view in the mirror blurry.

 

[samatulich]

I had the same problem. I took the entire bracket off and cut two somewhat triangular shaped pieces of cardboard (traced the bracket that mounts to the windscreen), duct taped them together to make a thick pad and placed that inside the bracket. I screwed the bracket back on with the home made pad behind it. I then had to push the rear-view mirror back in place. It was a real tight fit, but the mirror has not vibrated since.

 

[chicago]

Can anyone post pics of what you're doing to remedy this problem!!
It escaping me for some reason!!!

 

[FJsnoozer]

I merely pivoted my arm to the right working the bracket so that there was no slack.

 

[Splangy]

You can also rotate the mirror 180 degrees. They seem to be snugger upside down!

 

[My71FJ40]

You can also rotate the mirror 180 degrees. They seem to be snugger upside down!

^Oh, so the flipped bezel idea?

 

[shelfboy1]

not sure without photos but take off the mirror bend the springs inside a bit and snap it back on.or put a small piece of rubber or paper between the mirror and bracket.i never have used the rubber piece always thought it looked like a redneck repair job.

 

[crumbo]

silicon...it doesn't work for breasts in France, but it works on Toyotas
remove mirror ,apply a bead of silicon, let dry (24 hrs) reinstall....bobs' ya uncle

 

[77mustard40]

It's been years but I remember just taking about 4-6 inches of electrical tape, and starting at one end rolling it into a tube to place between the mirror and mounting bracket. Had to experiment a couple of times to get the OD just right.