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Dec 21, 2021 | 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by McLeod

these look very similar to the 1991 1/2 thru 1997 type 9 mirrors.

The top bracket is a giant rivet despite the look of a square drive.
I have redone several of the late 91-97 mirrors and the square drive recess is what I use to center a 1/4" drill bit up thru the bottom. Then follow it up with a 3/8" drill bit. Then the rivet falls apart.
For re-assembly, I used 3/8 stainless steel fine thread bolts.

You can see how I did it here:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...-question.html

Thanks for this ....
.... sure answered some questions for me. For the price of that chroming though, I think I'd just polish and clear though no chrome, stil shiney enough for me.

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Originally Posted by RedSmerf

... etc ...
Wonder if I could hit up the local metal supplier for the 1/8" stainless scrap and try my hand at hand-fabricating replacement brackets. Probably end up looking like crap, but maybe not. It would be a cheap project for while the truck is getting painted
... etc ...

In my last career, was not at all uncommon for me to find stuff laying in the interstate or along the shoulder as stuff falls off trucks, pieces sometimes get left laying after crashes too. I have a couple feet of stainless steel formed in an angle, it's about same thick ness as the mirror brackets, it's 1-1/2" x 1-1/2". I have no idea what it's purpose was but I found it at Buffalo Creek Bridge on I-81 south one rainy night, glistening on my shoulder lane (when patroling, the road was my office as were the shoulders and any medians), I figured it fell off of a flat bed, so never follow a flat bed closely (I once saw a 6 foot or longer prefabbed steel beam on a flat bed loaded with parts for construction ... slide off the back from between other pieces, past straps, hit the road and vault after the leading end hit the road up a good 5 or 6 feet as it rebounded ... and I was glad to be couple hundred feet back or more, was broad daylight, it was really heavy so I just drug it out of the roadway, then I took off after the truck ... called a wrecker to meet us there and help the driver get it brought back to the truck where stopped ... and reloaded ... a couple miles up the road ... driver's pocket got some lighter too). thios SS angle would maybe be perfect for mirror brackets, but it'd sure take a lot of drilling and cuting and polishing work. It's realy tough stuff, don't know that I'll do it, but I am thinking. Be a real bummer to do it, then find out those little stiffeners pressed in the OEM steel ones were more important in preventing stress cracking along the bend (from road vibrations) than I first thought.

Dec 21, 2021 | 12:34 PM

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What's wrong with these?
side view manual mirrors chrome pair set for 1980-96 ford f-series pickup truck | eBay

Dec 21, 2021 | 12:55 PM

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What's wrong with these?
side view manual mirrors chrome pair set for 1980-96 ford f-series pickup truck | eBay

The angle of the door for the 80 and up years is different, and makes the bracket stick upward when put on a 73-79. Also the holes are.... I think 3.5 inches apart, while the 70's type 9 is 2.75 (for most of them)

Dec 21, 2021 | 12:56 PM

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I think the bracket span is also wider on the 80's ones, but I'm not sure about that

Dec 21, 2021 | 01:35 PM

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Still would be easier to mod than fix the ones you have.

Dec 21, 2021 | 09:09 PM

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What's wrong with these?
side view manual mirrors chrome pair set for 1980-96 ford f-series pickup truck | eBay

I forgot, but my wife bought me a set looked like those in 1984 to put on my little '72 C-10 stepside. It had them little car kind mirrors at first, but I had those holes erased with a repaint. I had them on there for a couple years, they looked good I thought, they worked as good as the ones on my '77 that were OEM. She also bought the aluminum bed rails. Really liked that truck, just 2wd, short bed, but it run good after the swap. Rare for one of these to have AC, but it did ... as well as PS and PDB.