Probably a stupid question, but I'll ask. My buddy has a 1999 883 Sportster Custom. He wanted to update his mirrors. He had the stock, old style, long stemmed, square HD mirrors. He got a pair of the newer style, short stemmed oval mirrors. Left side went on in a snap. Undo the bolt, take old mirror off, new mirror on. However, when we got to the right side, the mirror is attached to the right turn signal. OK, no problem. Took off the old mirror, put the new mirror on, and when we tried to tighten it down, it went so far, and then the right turn signal started to turn towards the floor. We tried adjusting the signal on the mount, added washers, etc., but no luck.......it seems like the mirror stem gets so far down into the mount and then pushes on the signal making it turn down to the floor........what could be the problem? It's gotta be something simple, but we just can't seem to figure it out.

 

Put the washers on the top side to raise the mirror stem and it wont protrude as far down.

 

Yea, we did that. Weird thing is, we held the old and new mirrors up together, and the threads are exactly the same length on both mirrors. The new mirror shouldn't need any washers really.

 

Just use one mirror. Or no mirrors.

 

Agreed. I'd rather run no mirrors but CA law requires us to run at least one so I just use one of those 3" round adjustable mirrors on my left side hand controls; found it for $10 at a local bike shop. And it's not that I don't trust the mirror at all - I rely on mirrors to back up semi trucks every day into some VERY sketchy/narrow spots - it's just actually turning your head to look is just about always better.