Strut Plates and Mirror Caps

sweetlou · Post by **sweetlou** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:44 pm

I know someone here has done the strut plates before, I just want to make sure i know what I am doing before I start. I did a search but came up empty. I always remeber the first step and a few of the last steps on projects like this, its the ones in the middle that get me into trouble.

Also anyone ever pop off the mirror caps before, I would really like to avoid breaking off the factory black ones so I can reuse them later. Got some Union Jack ones to put on. Actually for Alicia to put on she loves working on her car.

mark

DDodge · Post by **DDodge** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:38 pm

As long as your strut tops are not mushroomed, it's no big deal. Take off the nuts, put on the plate, put the nuts back on. I put on the M7 plates with the strut bar and everything went very easily, even putting the hood back down over the strut bar. Your mileage may vary, so I am told.

DD

davester · Post by **davester** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:22 pm

When you replace the strut plates, torque the nuts @ 22 lbs.
Try this on the mirror caps--
http://www.northamericanmotoring.com/fo ... ght=mirror

Hope this helps, David

hctiev · Post by **hctiev** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:12 am

What strut plates are you putting on? What are you doing with your mirror caps.

Show us pictures when you're done!

sweetlou · Post by **sweetlou** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:08 am

Thanks for the information guy's. Davester you the man that is exactly what I was looking for. Alicia has come up with a better idea on her graphics so I might be returning the mirror caps ( they are the union jack ones) and the strut plates are just the plates form Baron. So as soon as we hear back from a certain graphic guy

we will figure out exactly what we are doing.

Mark

sweetlou · Post by **sweetlou** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:28 pm

Ok so i am going to try to tackle the strut plates on Saturday. I understand they are pretty straight forward, my only concern is one tower has a little mushrooming. So my thought is to remove the three bolts jack that side up in the front just a little so I can pound the metal back down. When I say a little I mean a LITTLE. Everything I find on NAM or M7 website say to follow the simple directions even for the mushrooming. But of course ours came with no directions. So anyone have any advice?

Mark

hctiev · Post by **hctiev** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:08 pm

Be sure you don't over torque the nuts. If the instructions don't mention a torque specification - Bentley's has it at 25 ft-lbs, which would be very easy to overdo.

Just a heads up. Good luck and show us some pictures when you are done.

dimini · Post by **dimini** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:46 am

Sweetlou

Did you install the strut braces and was the simple mushroom repair as easy as it sounds?

I have M7's and it took all of one minute per side to install. I had no mushrooming, though.

Soopercooperinfo · Post by **Soopercooperinfo** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:21 pm

Here's another rendition we found on the mirror cap replacement: http://www.mini2.com/forum/faq.php?faq= ... irror_caps

kenshin138 · Post by **kenshin138** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:52 am

I have some chrome caps I'll trade you for those nice black ones!

Minidave · Post by **Minidave** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:30 am

Since this thread was started last april (2008!), I'd hope he has them installed by now!

kenshin138 · Post by **kenshin138** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:32 am

Bah, somebody did thread necromancy and I missed it.

sweetlou · Post by **sweetlou** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:26 am

Well actually, strut plates were installed on Todd's driveway that included some hammer madification to shroomed side and some new bolts that were needed but did not come with the plates. Mirror caps never made it out of the box as a different direction on madificatition was made. I still have them and somebody needs them.

Mark

I mispelled modification but I like (madification) better so I did not fix it.

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