Motor lorry mud flaps are legally required on commercial vehicles. They wear absent, emerge as damaged over bit and you accept to moderate them. For utmost effectiveness, interchange inventory mud flaps with a hanging weight and stabilizer bar. You can install mud flaps on a semi in approximately an age.
Instructions
1. Convert the inventory hangers. Plant mud flap hangers are flimsy and easily broken. Alter them with a heavy-duty custom mud flap setup. Remove the cotter pin from the hinge. Pull the inventory hanger elsewhere of the bracket housing. Remove the bolts from the bracket housing that attach to the frame.
2. Fix upon the hanger's heighth. Whether the holes don't match, end the objective of the studs on the late hanger frame. Match the bolts to a drill bit for wideness. Drill gone the holes using a alpine tensile drill bit. Spray the contact end with penetrating oil as you drill to avoid pathetic the bit. Provided you enjoy problem, switch to a smaller bit and drill a aviator gap head. Finish drilling out the pilot with the correct sized bit.
3. Bolt the mud flap hanger into place. Push down on the hanger to disclose the safety plate inside the spring. Hold the hanger down securely and remove the plate. Slowly move the hanger back into place. This releases the spring into the correct position.
4. Install the stabilizer bars by bolting them into place. They are necessary to keep the weighted mud flap from catching on the rear axle tires, possibly causing damage.
5. Bolt the mud flap weight to the bottom of the mud flap. This weight keeps the mud flap from blowing uselessly in the air when the truck is moving.
6. Slide the mud flap into place. Drill your installation holes, and then re-thread the mud flap into place. Bolt securely with the nut facing the tires.
You must start at the base of the stabilizer bar and move upward. Otherwise, the bolts will get in your way. Mark the hole position and remove the mud flaps.7.
