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Where did you get those mirrors? I'd like to get a set for my 69 F100 but whenever I have looked I can only find these more generic style mirrors, or maybe more or less what they had on trucks in the 80's.
I hadn't seen them before on LMC and was getting a little aggravated looking because they weren't showing up. Turns out they weren't showing them to me because I was searching under the 67-72 category. Sometimes technology is good, but sometimes sitting on the throne with a LMC catalog would be better! But thank you now I got it saved so I can purchase later when I'm ready.
You got the type 5 way to small to use ones. They mount with a "nutsert" part # 55180. It is a internally threaded insert that gets installed in the door skin and compressed in place with a nutsert installation tool. There are different internal size threaded inserts.
Make sure you get a quality set up along with the hdwr and install tool. They are getting crimped/lock to your door skin. Any cheap hdwr or tool will not get a solid crimp and then you go to install the mirror and tighten the bolt and bam the nutsert starts to spin. Vice grip from inside the door time. After you take off the inner door panel.
I can only find these more generic style mirrors, or maybe more or less what they had on trucks in the 80's.
I had a '72 Chevy C-10 step side in the mid '80s, it had little round car mirrors. I got it painted, holes filled, put what looked like those exact mirrors on it, they were perfect I thought.
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I’m also excited about in stalling this cruise control.
Used a few on vehicles back in the day, still have a working one on my '77 that was put on in 1986, You'll like it after you get it adjusted. I got concerned about spare parts, found a NIB never opened one on Ebay a few years ago, so I have spares now.
any recommendation for sourcing these fasteners? I have the mirrors.
I bought a box of 1/4-20 "nut serts" for other uses off Amazon or Ebay, like a big pop rivet but with threads. I know they make a tool that "pulls" them like a big pop rivet, but not having one I use a grade eight 1/4-20 bolt and greased washers and a nut. The nut serts fit like a near 3/8" hole, use a drill gauge to test fit for snug hole size. In the past, I've bought them over the counter at NAPA too.
In my doors that I bought in the '90s, I did my measuring and took longer strips of 3/16" steel and knowing then how far apart the top pair and the lower pair were, drilled and tapped two holes in each 1/4-20 and after tapped, inserted a bolt and then a nut just very lightly touching the strip, added a couple spots weld. Then back the bolt out and run a tap in to better clean the threads. I then matched the strips to the holes I carefully placed in the new doors, from the inside my doors, and simply used one or two small pop rivets the hold them there. The rivet head is thinner than the thin plastic base gasket, so a small hole works there. and the inch wide steel is never gonna come out through the door, and spread the load on the sheet metal when adjusting, etc. I used SS bolts for the mirrors.
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