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'99 - '06 GM Truck Modifications
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Substitute mirrors for tow mirrors?
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<blockquote data-quote="ORVietVet" data-source="post: 20459" data-attributes="member: 9438"><p>[ATTACH=full]1423[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Sitting around with nothing to do can lead to investigation sometimes. I took a very bright Braun pen light out to truck and tilted the mirror glass all the way in at the inner portion of mirror glass. Then I could see what was happening when the mirror glass was shaking. In the pic above you can see the 3 round hollow holes. The back of the glass has 3 finger that set in those 3 holes. The play is where those fingers insert in the holes. I was able to just take a new wooden toothpick and shove it between the holes of the above actuator and the fingers of the glass. Went right in with needle nose pliers and if it falls out, it will not go anywhere but straight down and roll out of the gap at bottom of mirror. I rocked the mirror glass by hand in all directions and the toothpick is still tight. I will drive tomorrow to see if my PITA mirror glass shake is gone. Even if it is gone, I am going to change to smaller mirrors.</p><p></p><p>The glass portion is easy to remove and I think that if I wanted too, I could just "enlarge" the mirror glass fingers with some tape and shove them in there and drive it with no problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ORVietVet, post: 20459, member: 9438"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1737420758584.png"]1423[/ATTACH] Sitting around with nothing to do can lead to investigation sometimes. I took a very bright Braun pen light out to truck and tilted the mirror glass all the way in at the inner portion of mirror glass. Then I could see what was happening when the mirror glass was shaking. In the pic above you can see the 3 round hollow holes. The back of the glass has 3 finger that set in those 3 holes. The play is where those fingers insert in the holes. I was able to just take a new wooden toothpick and shove it between the holes of the above actuator and the fingers of the glass. Went right in with needle nose pliers and if it falls out, it will not go anywhere but straight down and roll out of the gap at bottom of mirror. I rocked the mirror glass by hand in all directions and the toothpick is still tight. I will drive tomorrow to see if my PITA mirror glass shake is gone. Even if it is gone, I am going to change to smaller mirrors. The glass portion is easy to remove and I think that if I wanted too, I could just "enlarge" the mirror glass fingers with some tape and shove them in there and drive it with no problems. [/QUOTE]
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