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Dec 3, 2004 | 03:14 AM

Carl914

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81 Remote Sports Mirror

I need to replace my broken LH sports mirror on my 81. I also need to swap out the glass on the replacement I bought. I noticed there was a small bolt that seems to hold the body of the mirror together. Does the mirror usually come apart with that bolt out so that I can remove the glass for replacement and for painting? I don't want to break the "new" one trying to get it apart, but I wonder if its only the old paint that is holding it together without the bolt in. Thanks.

Dec 3, 2004 | 07:02 AM

UKPaul

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I'll be watching this post with interest! I want to repaint my sport mirrors & was also wondering how to get them apart. All I've ever seen is something saying that the glass has to be broken(!) to take it apart & then new glass glued in on re-assembly. Apparently the GM repair kit contains a new mirror & some glue.

Dec 3, 2004 | 10:02 AM

Xakk

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Two bolts inside the stand screw into the botton of the bowl. Take those two bolts out and the stand seperates and the guts fall out.

Dec 3, 2004 | 12:53 PM

SLine78

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And you never know what you might find inside

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Dec 3, 2004 | 01:05 PM

Carl914

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Thanks for the response. I will give those ideas a try tomorrow, right after I buy some new wasp spray.

Who knows maybe I can see out of that thing by tomorrow night. What a concept!

Dec 3, 2004 | 01:26 PM

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Let us know how it goes tomorrow. I'm curious if you'll be able to remove the glass. The only way that I know to do this involve a pry bar, hammer and seven years of bad luck.

Dec 3, 2004 | 04:29 PM

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St. Jude Donor '07

I took mine apart with the two screws to repaint them. The only "gotcha" with the remote mirror is that the base won't go over the remote joystick assembly. This spring, I'm going to be doing it again for a better set of sport mirrors.

On the glass thing, I've never done this for sport mirrors, but I have on some '80s era truck mirrors. On those, the glass was hot-glued to the inner portion, so I had to smash the glass, clean all slivers off the glue, then use the supplied SUPER sticky two-sided tape to attach the new glass. They came out perfect.

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Dec 3, 2004 | 06:39 PM

chevymans 77

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St. Jude Donor '05-'06,'11,'13-'14,'16,'18,'19,'24, '25

I just got through powder coating my sport mirrors. I disassembled them to powder coat them. There were two screws in the pedestal holding the head of the mirror to the pedestal these same two screws hold the glass in the mirror. I was able to separate the cables from the joystick by compressing the spring and unhooking the cables from the joystick. This allowed me to pass the cables through the pedestal and remove the glass from the head.

Neal