I am working on the door alignment and fit of the new doors and needed to get moving so to get started I went ahead and drilled a hole in the door just for fun! Actually it's for the remote controlled mirror for the drivers side. The door came pre-drilled for the standard mirror but since mine has the Pony package, it has the remote mirror. I measured the old door, checked on the Mustang forums, and doubled verified the right distance and location on the door and started the process.
Checking the location.
Drilled the hole for the cables.
You can see the two holes in front for the standard mirror mount. I will fill those in shortly.
Lower mirror bracket
Lower Mirror bracket mounted.
Mirror is mounted.
Grind down to the metal to fill in the old holes.
Welding the holes.
Add a little body filler.
Sand it with my round block.
Ready for primer.
Good work James! Glad to see you back at it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Alex! You gave me a good lead by example. I felt like I didn't really know what I was doing until I see other people with the same problems. In my head I knew what to do but it makes more sense when you see someone else tackle the problems ahead of you. Thanks again!
DeleteThanks Alex! More to come.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see progress, keep it coming!
ReplyDeleteThanks Grant for the encouragement!
DeleteHi James! Nice re-start. Keep the updates coming!
ReplyDeleteThanks Risto. I have another post today. Yay! I've been saving them up. :-)
DeleteJames, Good to see you back at work on the 'vert. I'm not surprised the mirror holes weren't in the correct place, but you fixed it like a pro! Looking forward to the next installment.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dennis. The holes on the door are for the standard mirror. The Pony Package used a remote cable type of controller but moved the mirror back toward the middle of the door. Seems odd that they wouldn't just use the same area and mount but I guess the cables inside conflicted with the hardware inside the door.
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