What have you done to your square lately??

[ChuckN]

Put these mud flaps on that I’ve had kicking around. Got brackets from the junkyard recently and thought I’d see how they looked. They are net required where I live and I don’t drive this truck on the highway. So they would mostly just be for protecting the paint on the truck.

But I’m rather concerned about how close they are to the wheels. Even with the anti-sail brackets they just look to close. What do you guys think?

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IMHO, if you’re moving forward, wind would be pushing them back and further out of the way. Though someone may tell me I’m wrong.

 

[bucket]

Put these mud flaps on that I’ve had kicking around. Got brackets from the junkyard recently and thought I’d see how they looked. They are net required where I live and I don’t drive this truck on the highway. So they would mostly just be for protecting the paint on the truck.

But I’m rather concerned about how close they are to the wheels. Even with the anti-sail brackets they just look to close. What do you guys think?

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Perfectly fine, unless you back into a stump or something and force the flap into the tires as you are reversing. In which case, it'll rip the flap off. But, that can happen even if the flap were mounted further rearward. It's just the nature of flaps on work trucks.

 

[Johnny Atomic]

Sanded and primered the bottom of the tailgate before the rain hit.
Anyone know how to pop off the tailgate insert? That would be easier for me to sand and paint.

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I tried a million ways to shine up my tailgate band. Due to that coating or anodizing (or whatever it is that GM put on there ) after I got wet it always went back to looking streaky and white, like i had done nothing.

Absolutelly the best way I found was to polish it with metal polish, wipe it down with lacquer thinner and do a single thin wet coat of cheap spray can clear gloss lacquer. The lacquer seals it up and fills the pores of the coating. Lacquer is very thin and shrinks a large amount and therefore doesn't leave it looking like a thick plastic coating like other clear coats, It just looks correct. I did mine 4 or 5 years ago and it stilll looks as good as the day i did it.

 

[TotalyHucked]

I tried a million ways to shine up my tailgate band. Due to that coating or anodizing (or whatever it is that GM put on there ) after I got wet it always went back to looking streaky and white, like i had done nothing.

Absolutelly the best way I found was to polish it with metal polish, wipe it down with lacquer thinner and do a single thin wet coat of cheap spray can clear gloss lacquer. The lacquer seals it up and fills the pores of the coating. Lacquer is very thin and shrinks a large amount and therefore doesn't leave it looking like a thick plastic coating like other clear coats, It just looks correct. I did mine 4 or 5 years ago and it stilll looks as good as the day i did it.

Another option I've seen guys do (only seent it, never done it myself) is use the oven cleaner in a yellow can to "bake" off the anodizing. Once done, then just polish up the bare aluminum to whatever amount of shine you desire

 

[ChuckN]

Gave her a bath, vacuumed the interior, and even put some Megiuars Tire Shine on. Then did some errands around town.

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[Bronze Knight]

Perfectly fine, unless you back into a stump or something and force the flap into the tires as you are reversing. In which case, it'll rip the flap off. But, that can happen even if the flap were mounted further rearward. It's just the nature of flaps on work trucks.

Yeah I’ll hit the tailpipe before the mud flap in that case. I’ll carry on and do the other side and the take her for a drive and see how they do/look.