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Hi all,
I have an after market door on the passenger side. I would like to mount the stock style mirror. Can I drill the 3 holes and JB Weld nuts on the inside of the door for the bolts?
Should work right?

Thanks!

Jon

should work, just hafta be careful about positioning so the arm sits on the curve right - but if you still have the old original door it'll have the plate inside it for the mirror mounting location even if it never had one

Bill

Hi Bill,
Yes cool thats what I thought I will just need to be very careful on the drilling...Jon

Place the mirror and gasket on until correct, hold the gasket there and mark it. You should be able to use regular nuts held from the inside with a wrench. I did that. with bigish washers of course.

I started out with black mirror mounts...but just do not think it looks good...going to go to chrome...was mounting the outside door handle today and chipped a nice big half dollar size chip of paint...great fun

Always a good idea when drilling on painted surfaces to cover the work area with painters tape,the blue or green tape and mark and drill through that.

Jon, if you go with nuts on the inside of the door you may want to consider nylock self locking nuts to prevent loosening from vibration. On the chrome mirror brackets, as well as a lot of other items, beware of poor quality plating on a lot of the repops out there.

Thank you Bruce.
I got the mirrors from Classicparts.com

Keep an eye on them for awhile. It's been suggested here before that if the threads or any other area begins to show rust, get it removed and brush with clear nail polish. Worth a try. The repops I used on the 59 rusted slightly but the big rust producer was the chrome tail light brackets I used. I was getting ready to toss them for the black painted before I sold the truck.

I will have both now.
I am a bit worried living in San Fran...The weather up here has no mercy on vehicles...but the truck is in a garage. So that I hope will slow down any rust...

Jon

Unless it's a garage with humidity control. The 59 was always garaged and stayed dry except for washes and the occasional caught in the rain drive. Would be nice if they'd repop these in stainless.

Have you thought about nutserts? Floyd

My 58 Suburban came with a drivers side mirror. It has a support bracket on the inside of the door with welded on nuts. There is nothing on the passenger side. Has anyone seen a source for these brackets? I imagine the sheet metal alone isn't strong enough for the stress of the mirror since they are reinforced on the drivers side. What do you think. My Burb is in amazing shape and I'd hate to ruin a perfectly good door by putting a crease in it around the mirror arm.

the reinforcer with nuts should have been there even without the mirror, if it's missing you'll need to scrounge one used, or fab something similar yourself, don't do without

Bill

Bill;

I was afraid of that. I guess I'll have to learn how to fabricate parts.

I just bolted mine on and have had no problems. That curve at the mirror location makes it pretty strong and that mirror don't weigh hardly anything. But, placeing a piece of sheet metal inside should be an easy task also.

How thick of a piece of sheet metal should I use? I was thinking I'd have to bend up a piece of 1/4" plate and get the holes drilled in the right alignment. Might be a lot easier than that.

look at the driver side, it doesn't have to be that thick, some heavy scrap sheet metal will do .... use the mirror arm to mark hole position on the door, then mark the reinforcer thru those holes

Bill