Mud Flap Mod in 10 easy steps

For those of us who want to retain mud flaps but want to be able to do some light off roading, I decided to write a how to. I was going to take mine of completely. The stock mud flaps hang way too low to do any sort of off road driving. Hope this helps....

Materials and tools needed

1 masking tape (blue sticks best)
2 felt tip pen or pencil
3 super glue
4 10mm socket
5 Dremel multi max or jig saw (fine blade)
6 palm sander (80 grit sandpaper) or sanding block
7 utility knife
8 small pry bar or flat head screwdriver

Step 1
Clean back side of mud flaps (helps tape stick better)

Step 2
Apply tape to back side of front mud flap and draw pattern with pen. This will be up to you.



Step 3
Use 10mm socket and remove three screws. There will be three rivets that will need to be popped out. Use a small pry bar or flat head screw driver and pop rivets out. If the heads pop off save them (explain later)

Step 4
Use your cutting tool (Dremel, jig saw, hack saw, etc.) and cut your pattern.


Step 5
Use your cut front flap and trace pattern on your rear flap. I lowered my front flap down 3 inches. I wanted the rears to be longer than the fronts. Again this is up to you.



Step 6
Flip your cut flaps over and use them for the other uncut flaps



Step 7
Sand and shape using your sander (80 grit works best)


Step 8 Optional
Remember the rivets? I was able to pop most rivets but some of the rivet heads did come off. I did not want open holes so I super glued all the rivets and heads



Step 9 Optional
If you did step 8 you will have to cut off the three tabs on the rivets or you cannot put the flaps back on.


Step 10
Put cut flaps back on truck.

 

I might add, with this mod you can remove and reinstall your flaps easily by removing the 10mm screws

 

i like the way your cut mud flaps look, i was thinking about removing them as well cause they do hang so low, i also just poped out one of the rivets backing-up in heavy snow...
...any speacial tricks to poping the rear mud flap rivets back in without taking off the rear wheel?
kool

 

why even bother if you cut the front one so short like that....

 

Before I took my mud flaps off I read several posts where people were struggling to get the rivets out without damaging paint or the rivets themselves. I ended up using a pair of wire cutters and was able to get the rivets out with no damage to paint or the rivets. Basically you use the cutters like you are trying to cut the heads off the rivets (don't squeeze hard enough to cut the rivets). The cutters are angled and lift the rivets out while squeezing the part that spreads apart. Hopefully this helps someone (not sure if this method has been posted before). The cutters I used look like this.