Mirror Screw holes
The mirrors on the 63 are loose.
The screw holes are wallered out. Not sure if they will hold, but I ordered some of those plastic license plate nuts and screws. At some point I will replace the mirrors, but this might keep me from spending that money until after I get it running well. Waiting on Carburetor throttle shaft bushings to finish rebuilding it. I plan on starting replacing the wiring harness Today. |
Re: Mirror Screw holes
Is the weldnut thick enough to do a heli-coil?
I used nutserts to install a passenger side mirror, perhaps you could drill it out and use a nutsert, however you'd likely have to remove all of the old weldnut as a nutsert needs relatively thin metal to attach. A stop-gap measure can be slipping some wire in between the threads to take up some of the thread gap. |
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Can you get some longer bolts and add nuts on the other side of the wallered out nuts
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LOL, well that was a dumb idea.
I did one and it held, but can tell that will not last. I like the nutsert idea. Looks like they are just holes and no threads. Maybe the backing nuts fell off or something. Yeah, I was thinking just a bolt and nut. |
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Is it on the drivers side or passenger side?
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Both sides have 1 or 2 loose.
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Also used nutserts for my new doors, you can use a bolt the size of the nutsert and a size up nut to crimp them down.
They seem to be holding pretty good so far. |
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I mounted mine with rivnuts
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