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[shootermcgavin003]

i mean pw pl pm foo.

[stonehenge]

lol i know

[theholycow]

No power. Drivers side mirror should be the same. Passenger side mirror was not included with the car...previous owner screwed on a cheap aftermarket mirror.

I suspect that the only options were the 4.1, AM/FM stereo, air conditioning, landeau top, and rally wheels.

Wife bought me a proper, matching, OEM-replacement passenger side mirror for xmas. It's electric...I'll have to find a place for a switch, or just use it manually. If it holds its adjustment then I don't care to mess with it.

Since the aftermarket mirror isn't mounted in the OEM location I'll have two screw holes to fix. How do I do that?

[stonehenge]

play-doh in the holes imo


Wasn't the previous owner your dad or grandpa or something?

[theholycow]

My maternal grandfather bought it new. He died and we gave it to my paternal grandmother. Various hacks that it came with (dome light wires with household lamp cord, that mirror, brackets used to raise seat height, cupholders screwed into door panel) might be my maternal grandfather's fault, my dad's fault, or fault of the mechanic that my dad brought it to. Lamp cord (and wire nuts IIRC) must be maternal grandfather's fault, he was an electrician. Seat height brackets are not his fault, I remember dad wanted the seat higher for paternal grandmother...as I remember he said he sent it to an upholstery shop to have padding added but obviously I remember wrong.

I want to know who did the undercoating. If they're still around and still using the same product/process, I want to send business their way, everything that was undercoated is miraculously rust-free 32 years later.

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Maternal grandfather almost certainly was at fault for the cupholders, I remember the car sitting in his garage with a cup in the cupholder and a paper towel stuck to the bottom of the cupholder...also the screws aren't the screws my dad would have used.

[stonehenge]

:datFamily:

[shootermcgavin003]

My car has the sport mirrors similar to whats on wifes monte there.

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You could put some plugs in the other holes and paint them.

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[theholycow]

I was thinking of grabbing some sport mirrors off a junkyard car and painting them until wife ordered that chrome mirror. Then this Saturday I found a car in the junkyard with chrome mirrors too...but the one that wife got is electric.

What kind of plugs would I use for that?

[shootermcgavin003]

Some of them had oem power. I think 84 up did and the caddis. Mine are remote but no pm. I guess you would need the oem switch.

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Plus drill a hole for that wire.

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[theholycow]

There's no wires going into my door right now, are there.

If I hook it up, I'm gonna use an OEM switch from a Caddy whose mirror and wiring/switch I harvested once but decided not to use.

[shootermcgavin003]

Yeah you will have to run all that.

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If you could find all the pw pl and panels off a lesabre or delta be best idea.

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[theholycow]

DNW to have to buy all PW PL stuff just for my PM...though if I found a donor I might do it just so I can have panels that aren't all worn/cracked/fucked up.

Mailing package USPS tomorrow. Stopped at FedEx but the coupon doesn't work for ground and the next step up is way too expensive even with the coupon.

[shootermcgavin003]

oh yeah fts then. the pontiacs and deltas swap. caprices will but there not a 100 percent. the deltas dont have woodgrain but its basically the same panel.

[theholycow]

Finally shipped that mofo, USPS Parcel Post.

[shootermcgavin003]

Im gonna have switch speedo cables before i can remove it rick ill get it when i get that one u found me. Insured the lesabre and drove it. Wife gonna bish.

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[theholycow]

Sounds like a plan...and fuck yeah driving it!

[shootermcgavin003]

When it arrives ill swap em. Had a ball driving it. Hey do you know how the knob comes off the headlight switch. Never could figure it out.

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[theholycow]

Yup. You need a right-angle (or sharper) pick or piece of baling wire/coat hanger bent like one. Either of the two on the right in this picture will work:


I keep a 2 inch piece of baling wire with a bend like that in my glovebox.

You pull the knob out to turn the lights on, spin it until the latch is facing up, hang the pick on the metal tab, pull the tab with the pick, and the knob slides right off. Then you unscrew the bezel behind it by hand. Installation is reverse, but no pick required, just push the knob on.

[shootermcgavin003]

Oic. I couldnt remember at all. Sadly i removed on years ago but forgot that shit.

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[shootermcgavin003]

got that shit cao. ill swap them cables this week.

[theholycow]

That was fast, I thought it'd be like next Wednesday or later. Did the tape hold? I was afraid my packaging job would fail.

[shootermcgavin003]

idk its at dads. he didnt say it was fucked though.

[shootermcgavin003]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/80-Bu...item27cdc85fb8

weird options on that car rick and thought 80 was the older clip?

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but its seem the black gauges and silver be the same size and shit

[theholycow]

No, 80 is when they switched the clip...same exact clip as mine.


So mash clean. Jelly.

Which options seem weird? Seems equipped about like you might expect. I'm not familiar with those wheels but it says they're factory.

[shootermcgavin003]

well the gauges are half black half silver. the power windows are just stuck on the door panel rather than a long armrest. no wood on the doors. vinyl seats.

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also theres something weird above the speedo and shit. those wheels are factory the wagons had 8.5 rears and the bigger bolt pattern.