Re: [T3] passenger mirror install.

[Russ wolfe <russella@prairieinet.net>]

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 20:56, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2002, at 14:33, cesaro suma wrote:
> 
> > this recent disscusion about mirrors, made me want to got put the mirrors i 
> > picked up in parma on my car. well, i noticed that the threaded insert is 
> > attached to the inner side of the door (welded?) that holds the mirror on. 
> > this makes it real easy to install, but i also picked up a pass side mirror 
> > that is identical, but my 1970 fasty has no pass side mirror. 
> 
> I THINK it should be there. Perhaps you can check with a magnet to see if it 
> has been covered over with Bondo. The threaded insert actually consists of a 
> large thin hex nut spot-welded to the inside of the doorskin. Fastys of that 
> era came with a plastic plug pressed into that spot, painted to match the 
> car. If you can't find it from the outside I don't know if you can work your hand 
> up there on the inside far enough to expect to feel it.  
> 
If the hole is not there, the nut is not there, unless as Jim says, it
has been "bondo'd". I have installed a few of these, and we had to drill
the hole, and pull the vent wing assembley to hold the nut while
screwing in the mirror.

-- 
Russ Wolfe
'66 FB MT (It drove)
'71 FB AT 
'65 Bug (not running)
russw@classicvw.org
http://www.classicvw.org



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