Hi to all, I've been a Ram owner for about 9 months now but just recently started going through the truck to get it in top shape. Mint truck, bought from my retired next door neighbor. He followed the servicing religiously and I'm happy to not have any problems with the truck.
I've searched but can't find this answer: How does one tighten the side mirrors? The drivers side bounces a little on the road. I tightened the screw at the bottom but didn't want to break it by going overboard..
Also, what's the difference between a Club cab and a Quad cab? Mine has the suicide doors but pics I've seen show them looking the same...

See, I told you they were easy questions! Thanks for this forum, I plan to be here often.

 

Welcome to the forum!
You have a quad cab if I'm not mistaken.

 

club is 97 and earlier. it means that it has a back seat but doesn't have back doors. they started quad cab in 98 and they have the suicide doors. i'm not sure about the mirror. i've replaced my glass but i haven't taken the whole mirror off before.

 

My d side mirror does the same thing. Inquiring minds what to know the answer!!

Welcome to DT.

 

Yeah. My truck is a '99 and has the extended cab but no rear doors and is considered a "Club Cab". The "Quad Cab" has a rear door.

 

Yup. I think it was the 2001 model year, if I recall correctly, that the club cab wasn't even offered For 2001s, you could have a regular cab or a quad cab.

 

OK, inquiring minds, here goes Club cab = No Doors, Quad Cab = Doors. Mirror fix (Here comes the fun part) you have to take your door apart. The only way to fix it is to take your door panel off, take the mirror off the truck, undo the sandwich type clamp they have on there, put the bolts back and tighten them up. Tips from experience: My bolts were screwed up by the Mexican assembly line workers that put it together. The bolts on one side were were torqued down all the way, while the other side they were only half way (make sense?). I fixed it and reassembled it and thought I was done. Unfortunately it will loosen again after a few moths. Tip #2: Use lock tight. I didn't and I regret it. I will probably go back and redo it some day. Mine is not really loose, but when I assembled it I couldn't even move it (swing it in or out) since I did it so tight, now I find I can move it, therefor it's getting loose. Read through these TSBs and they will give you some insight as to what you need to do. You don't need to do any of the changes they discuss on the TSB, but it will give you good schematics as to what you are getting in to. I didn't have these when I did mine, so I had to figure it out the old fashioned way (with a lot of cussing).

http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1998/23-35-98.htm
http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1998/08-09-98.htm
http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1999/08-30-99.htm

 

Not sure on your 99 but on my 2001 there are 3 bolts that hold the mirror on.. you first have to remove the door panel.. Like I said not sure about your setup.. good luck

 

Great info, I don't think I'll pull the door panel off until it gets a bit worse. I put a sig pic but it hasn't shown up so maybe I need a higher post count or something. Thanks again!

 

You really dont have to take the hole door panel off. Just fold dow the plastic enuff to get a socket back there. I have done it a few time when I put tow mirros on.