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Old Oct 13, 2023 | 01:11 PM
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Looks good to me. I favor anything like that that's functional. It's good to know what's around you. Some people think the little peep mirrors are cute, and maybe they are, but they're absolutely useless except for covering the letter of the law. They're not for me.
 
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Old Oct 13, 2023 | 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by 52 Merc
Looks good to me. I favor anything like that that's functional. It's good to know what's around you. Some people think the little peep mirrors are cute, and maybe they are, but they're absolutely useless except for covering the letter of the law. They're not for me.
52 Merc with these "experienced" eyes of mine I need ALL the help I can get 🤣🤣
 
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Old Oct 13, 2023 | 02:48 PM
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It looks good Donald. Will it work on the passenger side or will it need a longer arm?
 
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Old Oct 13, 2023 | 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by abe
It looks good Donald. Will it work on the passenger side or will it need a longer arm?
Abe in my case yes. I actually have the extended arm from Mid 50s on the passenger side.
 
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Old Oct 14, 2023 | 06:12 AM
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Check with vehicle safety supply, they have a large
selection of mirror heads!
vehiclesafetysupply.com.

Regards, Mlark
 
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Old Oct 14, 2023 | 06:34 AM
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Old F1,

Took a vacation day and was messing around with the 55'. Ran over to the local NAPA in town and after some trial and error search with the cool counter guy located a 5×7. Added an additional nut for the set screw and tried it. What does everyone think? Visibility in the blind spot is better.

Napa part # 730-5788

Does not look bad. My truck is a driver in the truest sense. I have been to.the scrap yard in it this morning looking for my next welding class project. The mirror may just work out. I will test it tomorrow.
Looks good!! Can you post a picture of how you attached it to the arm ?
 
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Old Oct 14, 2023 | 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by avf100
Looks good!! Can you post a picture of how you attached it to the arm ?
Hello AVf100,
Let me know if these photos dont help.


Here you see it mounted.

The mirror comes with 2 M6 nuts and 2 washers. I added an additional M6 nut. You could probably get by with some Blue Loctite

Here you see the two inner m6 nuts. The set screw in the arm will secure the mirror against these two M6s
 
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Old Oct 14, 2023 | 10:12 AM
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Perfect....Thank you. So the nuts are small enough to fit into the arm.
 
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"Bumping" for F100 Supercrew. See the last post detailing M6 use.
 
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Just a note about mounting... My 4.5" swan neck arms were 1/4" internal thread. The mirror I wanted (that didn.'t work better) was 5/16
I drilled the mount and put in a heli-coil for 5/16 and it worked fine

 
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Old Oct 18, 2024 | 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by F100supercrew
Wish someone would repo this type mirror would be very SUCCESSFUL and a GREAT seller. I would buy them in a heart beat and so would lot of others. If you hear anyone doing this I would be a BUYER .

Let me know anyone doing this or have compete directions and part #'s and VIDEO needed to do this mirror set-up.-- Thanks







F100supercrew see the mirror and gearshift that combined can be mounted on a 53-56'.
 
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