MIRROR GASKET

Awesome picture! Can you post it in high-res?

Thanks,
Greg

PS--my 1977 308 could also use new mirror gaskets, if anybody has a source...

 

I could source it given the loan of a good gasket to make a mold from. (Or 2 gaskets if left & right gaskets aren't identical).

Just reproduced something similar, a grip ring for an early 308 GTB gas cap:

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8310

Hmm, If I could borrow a mirror & someone had some pix of the real gasket, I should be able to machine a master part & make a mold from it.

 

Hi Verell,

Along the same lines a number of us have been looking for the mirror gasket that goes under the metal mirrors used on some of the older cars such as Dino's and Daytona's. I think the footprint is somewhat smaller than the Calif style used on 308 series cars.

I don't have a good one to provide you otherwise I would just send it to you.

 

Verell, i just ordered a pair of http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/ProductDetails.asp?RecId=1555 as my stock euro mirrors can't angle enough for how low we are going with the seats (you know the situation). If these are the same gaskets i have in my STOCK mirrors and i don't need them with the new mirror, let me know in mid-March if you still need gasket samples and i could send you my old ones.

 

This may touch some nerves but actually both the rectangular ones AND the round ones are correct for 1977.

Both styles were OEM to my two cars, one in Canada and the other across the continent at Ron Tonkin.....

The oval ones are available thru Ducati shops , we've heard, and Reoriginals has the rectangular accordian boot ones although the LH and RH are not the same color...

There is also 'small' rectangular, as I have in a matched pair, then later they got a little bit larger. They are actually the better design, if Enjoy the music had them he could just twist the double ball joint mounting as required.

The teardrop ones only go up and down on a horizontal axis, not nearly as good, and are much more prone to breaking from accidental impacts, I'd think.

 

rcraig,

The bases are not the same size, you may have to touch up the door paint from the different footprints of the bases.....

 

Sheeeeit, man, wasting time AND space is what it's all about here! LOL!

And money of course, lot's of money!

Is Craig your last name? As in Elijah Craig whiskey (18 year old)??

Just curious as I have family of that surname ...the whiskey isn't bad either!

If you take those mirrors off post back we are always swapping spares and stuff...except greg328, who puts it all on ebay!

(Texans joshing each other, there.....)

What other chat sites sit around and talk gaskets and mirror shapes? We're sick individuals, for sure! Wait 'till the discussion on fender louver color breaks out! LOL!

"I say black anodized!!! .....POW!"

"No, you dumb@$$, they match the BODY COLOR, before the QV.....SMACK!"

ROTFLMAO!

 

Hmmmm....back to the subject, check both your ball swivels inside the bellows, make sure those are tight, there's a set screw, IIRC.

Then you might want to experiment with a rubber gasket material as a base gasket, just quick trimmed to match and see if it improves. Mine don't shake like that, although if the ball joints are loose I'd think they'd droop all the time from where you set them.

Remember the scene from Gumball movie, where they throw the mirror out the window....."Inna Ferrari, it doesa notta matter, whadisa behind you!"

 

I heard that!!

Greg