Rear View Mirror

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Originally Posted by John-Tucson

Hey Arthur, Both Dwight and I have the windshield center rod also. The purpose in mine is to keep the top and bottom frames of the windshield together. Mine is not attached to the body. There are about three makers of that rod, I'd suggest that you attend a few Cobra get togethers and look for that rod and see how they are attached. Some are attached to the dash frame underneath the body, some are either screwed into the fiberglass or bolted from underneath. If you look at the bottom center of your windshield frame you'll see two very small holes, some makers use those holes to mount a piece of flat stock to the frame there and attach the rod to that flat stock. It can be a difficult project to do after you have the body on and painted.

I'm thinking about making a center rod for the windshield. The rod will be 1/2" aluminum round shaft attached to the center top of the windscreen via a bracket. At the dashboard cowl it will fasten where the stock mirror attaches, also with a custom bracket. Then a custom fitted mirror will fasten anywhere along the length of the 1/2" aluminum shaft. Infinite adjustment along the 18 or so inches of travel.

My windshield has a center bracket that attaches at the bottom of the windshield frame to the cowl. So by adding the center rod I'll triangulate the structure and reduce vibration too, to some degree.

The 1/4" center rod that I have seen seems only to hold the frame in some compression and I believe really needed if you have a soft top. I had this problem when I installed my soft top. It just pulled the top of the frame away from the glass. That prompted me to silicon the glass into the frame. Now it is solid and rigid.