my63vw

I’ll try to explain how i did to disassemble and assemble again the mirror in my 63, cause i dont have pictures of that, and it was one year ago, it might be not acurate as it whould.

First of all, my mirror was really ugly, rusty, and the glass wasnt good, it has a lot of scratches and was moldy, with that in mind i finally broke the glass to see how the mirror was assembled.

I found that it has something like a rivet to hold the part with the glass to the base, and i nedeed to separate it to crome, cause the first is aluminium and it is not cromed, so i tried to put the rivet’s sides apart, when i did it, removed a washer and that was all. (im not sure if it has a spring beween the washer and the bottom, it could be).
Then, i sended the base to crome and the rest was polished, the overall is good, but cause the base was rusted, the suface is not soft, it has some small holes on it.

Assembling was a diferent story, cause the rivet’s sides were so delicate they broke and was imposible to use the same method again, so we make a hole in the base, right in the midle were the rivet was, the hole is a litle bit less that 3/16, then we make a thread (3/16) on it, after that was done, we used a bolt to put togheder the two parts, the bolt is really tight, but you have to be carefull and not tight it to much cause you can damage the thread and lost all the work, dont forget to put a washer between.

I went to a shop where they sell glasess and mirrors and the guy there cut it to exactly the size and shape i needed, he give some silicone or something like that to put the glass in the holder, it was easy and worked nice.

Here is a litle draw i made to show you how it is, is not hard at all, just be carefull and spend the time it needs.