Mud flap suggestions?
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On my crew cab with 6 inch lift and 37, I was asked to get mud flaps for it to pass the yearly inspection about 10 years ago.
Back at my shop, I took a length of metal that was as long as the bed is wide and welded it to a 2 inch hitch I had spare. I then screwed two used mud flaps on to the ends if the metal bar. I literally installed it in the shops yard, got my sticker and removed them for the ride home.
I now have a slide in set of mud flaps for any truck I own with a receiver hitch.
I would let you borrow it but the shipping would get you.
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On my crew cab with 6 inch lift and 37, I was asked to get mud flaps for to pass the yearly inspection 10 years ago.
Back at my shop, I took a length of metal that was as long as the bed is wide and welded it to a 2 inch hitch. I then screwed two used mud flaps on to the ends if the metal bar. I literally installed it in the shops yard, got my sticker and removed them for the ride home.
I now have a slide in set of mud flaps for any truck I own with a receiver hitch.
I would let you borrow it but the shipping would get you.
Back at my shop, I took a length of metal that was as long as the bed is wide and welded it to a 2 inch hitch. I then screwed two used mud flaps on to the ends if the metal bar. I literally installed it in the shops yard, got my sticker and removed them for the ride home.
I now have a slide in set of mud flaps for any truck I own with a receiver hitch.
I would let you borrow it but the shipping would get you.
...Ben
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Nope, just an old-fangled Marlin, the kind that was prone to the wooden stock cracking under use...This one got re-barreled after a previous owner kept shooting it after someone's lead reloads got stuck in the barrel...Removing the five spent bullets left a severely bulged barrel so a new one was machined and installed and new furniture fitted stem to stern...All I did after buying it was add the front and rear flip-up aperture sights...The only thing remaining from the original rifle is the lower receiver, trigger group and magazine...The stainless weighted ten round magazines in the door pocket came from a competition 1911 I owned a few decades ago...The new barrel is a street legal 16" with a flash hider installed...All the extra picatinny rails could accommodate bad boy accessories, but I choose to leave it as is...The cost for the whole package was about the same as a pristine factory stock .45 Camp Carbine (if one can be found) and a lot more reliable...
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...BenDiscontinued in 99, I see. Glad you put some old iron to use.
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That is my main thing against mud flaps.
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Too bulky for me, I'm used to long years of use with inline mags...Five 10-rounders are just a convenient way to store an extra box of ammo...
If I lived closer to the coast, I would have the same concern, but I see your point...I don't see many vehicles from Galveston over 5 years old without visible rot...
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Around here in the rust belt, I am never a fan of drilling and screwing into sheetmetal, be it rockers or fender wells. This is how most people attach their running boards, mud flaps and fender flairs. All of which are how you START big rot holes in your sheetmetal..
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Around here in the rust belt, I am never a fan of drilling and screwing into sheetmetal, be it rockers or fender wells. This is how most people attach their running boards, mud flaps and fender flairs. All of which are how you START big rot holes in your sheetmetal.
That is my main thing against mud flaps.
That is my main thing against mud flaps.
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Around here in the rust belt, I am never a fan of drilling and screwing into sheetmetal, be it rockers or fender wells. This is how most people attach their running boards, mud flaps and fender flairs. All of which are how you START big rot holes in your sheetmetal.
That is my main thing against mud flaps.
That is my main thing against mud flaps.
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I have a few trucks with steel extended from the sides of the receiver hitch (behind the bumper) to attach mudflaps to.
My flatdeck came with some old conveyor belt type stuff screwed on for flaps. Still using them.
My flatdeck came with some old conveyor belt type stuff screwed on for flaps. Still using them.