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Have a weird issue on my 00 RSTC. The right side mirror has been effectively locked down onto the front brake master cylinder. It looks like someone took a chisel and knocked an indentation on each corner of the locking nut. I've tried bracing the master cylinder with a wrench and then trying to loosen it, but I can't get it to move at all. Any ideas, other than replacing the master cylinder and buying new mirrors?

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If the locking nut is indexed with marks in the edges ,It suggests to me that the mirror stand is a left hand thread .

If this is so, you would have to reverse the spannering direction in order to loosen (undo) the mirror.

Cheers ,

Winston66, Northampton, Western Australi

 

That means you have to do it up (tighten it) in order to loosen it.

Edited by winston66
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Have just checked my 1996 Royal Star and I confirm that the right hand mirror has a left hand thread , which is reversed to normal rotation action, and I also have the index marks on the locking nut which confirms the left hand thread.

Cheers , Winston 66

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Thanks for the information. Didn't know that about indexing. Hopefully I will remember it! Cheers Winston!

 

Addendum: Turned the wrench the "wrong" way, and the locking nut loosened right up. Thanks again!

Edited by Mark J
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