And now I can see!

[flyboyjack]

I posted a thread a couple days ago bemoaning the fact that the side mirrors bought from Brothers and other stores will not work on the passenger side. It was then I found this was a common comment and yet Brothers, et al continue selling these as fitting 71-72 C10's. I initially thought about cutting the shaft between the two swivel balls and welding a short extension. Then when looking into the mirror from the bottom I could see that it was threaded. I applied a LOT of pressure with needle nose vise grips and backed the mirror off from the mount. It took a LOT of grunting ,... I'm pretty sure they used Lok Tight on the threads. Once off, we reinstalled the threaded portion back into the base only 2 1/2 turns and then put a SS nut between the base and the swivel on the mirror. I also had to Dremel a part of the retaining flange on the swivel/ball to gain enough movement for the mirror to function as it should. (Someone else did that previously somewhere out there. But w/o extending the mirror armature, I don't think it worked well). This works. I can see the side of the truck from my position in the driver's seat. Once you have the mirror apart, there are several other ways to "skin this cat". I just took the easiest. (I think).