Just wanted to give a big :thumbs up: to KJShover. He sent me a mirror, after my dumb*ss self broke mine off, thanks man!
I have to say, it became quite an ordeal removing the broken off mirror stem from the master cylinder. First, it was corroded in, I guess from water sitting there and rusting.
Since it was reverse thread, I figured I could just thread a normal bolt into it, which would tighten, and extract the revere-thread mirror stem piece.
Well good idea it seemed like, but it wasn't a very good idea when I twisted the freaking head off the bolt, leaving a hardened bolt now broken off inside the hollow stem, meaning drilling would be MUCH harder. :bang head:
After a whole evening and getting maybe 1/8" into the thing using a hammer drill, I gave up for the evening.
Came back the next day, regrouped, and tried again. For some reason this time I got a bit to bite, and started drilling at a rapid rate. Unfortunately, due to the hardened broken off bolt, the hole drilled off center. I was however, able to remove the bolt piece, leaving the hollow stem.
I decided to try drilling larger and larger until nothing was left, then pick the remains out of the threads. Well, as I went to a larger drill bit, I decided to gear the drill way down slow, hoping it would dig into the remaining stem, and instead of drilling, actually extract it.
BINGO! It worked; the bit dug in hard, broke the stem piece loose, and extracted it. Wow, what a pain! Took two days to get the broken stem out.
New mirror looks great again, wow. I gotta say it sucks riding with no mirror on one side.
Installed some new NGK plus, she seems to run better, but the plugs I pulled out, which looked like OEM, still looked good. (which was a relief)
