67 Dart Remote Mirror Demystified

Dana67Dart said
Part 3...

Some notes...

The actuator where the glass attaches to has 3 holes that the cables go thru. There is a cable crimp on each one. This mirror had one if the crimps that pulled thru the aluminum mirror glass mount. I was able to get it back thru. You could probably make a small horse shoe clip to put under the crimp to prevent the crimp from pulling thru.
The scratched areas are where there was 4 small dollops of glass adhesive.

A question about a mirror not being tight is probably the crimps no longer being tight to the aluminum mirror holder
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There is a spring in the joystick which if it was too loose it too might not allow the mirror to stay in position
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I noticed that when the cables are laid out straight, the actuator head was excessively loose, curving the cables caused it to tighten up nicely.

The last thing I noticed was the actuator head had "R" "Y" "G" stamped on it, this corelated with the cable colors.

My mirror joystick was bent and there was a gap between the mushroom head on top of the spring and the bottom of the joy stick. Mirror wiggled and fell down after adjusting. You can’t take it apart without destroying it, but you can twist the screw-like cables clockwise to lower and tighten. This lessened the gap, but not enough to create friction. I added a twist tie to stretch the wires (inside door) and place friction on the wires. Seems to work, will see how long it lasts. Bent the joystick straight by hand.