I had a guy at a truck accessorie shop tell me yesterday that NO one makes mudflaps for these trucks(Dually)! I feel certain this is untrue! Can some one point in the direction or give me a link to where I can find some! thanks for all the help!

 

Make ur own... Just go to any big rig shop and by a couple flaps from them and cut it how you want them... They are like 6-7 bucks for a 18" x 36" flap... Thats what I always do...

 

Can someone post some pics of where they mounted them on the dually fenders?

 

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...ght=drw+mud%2A

this will give you a better idea on how to mount them. one of the PO's of my truck drilled and screwed right thru the fender. im not impressed with it.

 

These trucks are drilled through the fender from the factory. At least the duallies I've had were that way.

My current truck needs mudflaps, and I plan to get some ~18x36 flaps, and mount them on a piece of 1"angle iron mounted to the frame in some way.

 

actually, you got me to thinking. here is a correction to what i previously stated:

one of the PO's of the bed of my truck drilled the fenders. it may be factory, but i dunno. i remember when the bed was on jeremy's truck in '06 the flaps were mounted this same way.

 

Someone, JIM LANE I think, posted some pictures of some really nice flap brackets.

I have seen them done in as many ways as there are trucks.

Believe it or not, our local ACE hardware even keeps a stack of mud-flaps, something like seven-bucks apiece; sometimes one side says ACE and sometimes they are plain old black.

Like already said, they are easily cut to fit.

A nice touch is to cut some aluminum tread-plate pieces to attach to the bottom edges, maybe three to five inches high and the width of the flap.

 

Yup..
I bet it was me.

Here is how I mounted my mud flaps.

I got the rubber instead of the plastic ones at my local Truck Parts.
To make them fit the way I wanted them to I had to trim a few inches off the side and top.

I then re-cut the radiuses to finish them up.



Another view.

Because of all of the different angles I was looking at, I parked the truck on a level surface and then used a small level to make sure the bottoms were level with the street.



I made the hangers using some 1” square tubing and welded a tab on the end.

This coincides with an existing hole on the frame rail.



I then welded a support bracket to use the outer bolt for the dually fender.

You cannot see this but on the backside of the mud flap I cut a piece of 1”x 3/16”x the width of the mud flap piece of aluminum to sandwich the flap in between.

Just looks better than washers.



To finish it off I capped the end of the tube to make it look nice.

And yes I have thought about installing some LED lights along the bottom, but it has got to look nice.



Jim

 

One thing I will add :

I don't have this convenience on any of my trucks, but intend to put it on my list of things to do.

Life is much easier if you will incorporate some kind of quick and easy release mechanism in your flap-hangers.

Reason being, if they are decent flaps, they are gonna be stiff, and right IN THE WAY of a lot of maintenance/repair jobs that one will be doing; believe me, I know.

They will become coated with dust, dirt, broken glass, and possum guts; and, when you raise one in an effort to get it out of your way, all of this falls straight in your eyes; what doesn't go in the eyes goes in the ears and down the shirt collar.


An examination of a collection of big trucks will show that the majority of them will have a square socket/pocket attached to the frame, with a matching springy square rod, bent at a 90* angle, this rod being housed in the pocket and the flap hanging from it.

A clip-pin usually secures the bottom of the square rod from coming out of the pocket.

Pull the clip-pin, slide the flap-hanger/rod straight up, and the whole mess is off and out of the way.


If space limits being able to lift the flap/bracket enough to clear the pocket, one can do away with the 90* angle of the hanger-rod and make a pocket such that the rod comes in side-ways; the end result will work the same.

 

Lately I have been drawing up design plans for some mud flap brackets for my 93' SRW. I plan to do something kinda similiar to Jim Lane's design. I will use some 1"x1" angle iron and a welder. The #1 thing that worries me is having enough leaf spring clearance when my truck is squatted down with a good load and not interfere with the custom brackets. I really would be interested in seeing someone's bracket design on a SRW 1st gen. I am going to purchase a set of black plastic flaps with stainless weights (14"x30"). I will take this generic size and trim them to what I need/what looks good. I hope to have some finished project pics posted sometime after the Holidays.

 

check these out:
http://www.duraflap.com/

 

I think you are referring to the Betts Spring Mud Flap holder.
It is made by Betts Spring Company.

They could easily be cut down so they would fit under out fender, all of the ones I have seen only wedge into the mounting bracket.

Although they are fairly heavy and would probably never come out they would probably do a bit of damage if it wedged itself between the wheel and fender as it tried to crawl over the wheel.

You can get these at most and Truck Parts or take a walk along the interstate and find them for free then just buy the brackets.

They also make a spring-loaded bracket that clamps the flap instead of bolting them on.

The Betts Spring Company is out here in California.

I can honestly say I have never had Possum Guts on my Mud Flaps, now Cat is another story.

Jim

http://www.paccar.com/truckaccessori...h/flapbkts.htm

 

If you use your truck for working off of the road do not make the mud flaps any longer than what local regulations require.

A few years back when I bought the '98 it had some beauty mud flaps with nice stainless hangers fabbed up and stainless strips on the bottoms. The first time that I backed into a snow bank they both were ripped off laying on the ground.

JP.

 

Yes, those are the ones I was referring to.

I also have an assortment of them with various mis-matched flaps, some quite snazzy with lights, chrome girls, etc., that I have found in the big ditch by our mail-box at the shop; I always only find them one at a time and, for whatever reason, usually the right side.

I haven't been so fortunate as to find a matching pair.