TacoXpo
HOAX DENIER
The clips and the knife edge thick connections on the original flares are breakage waiting to happen!
(sorry for the shitty pics! - If someone else does this mod, could your redeem me with some good pics! :o
I have cured mine with black silicone IIRC GE from Home Depot (caulking gun cartridge)
- Blue tape an outline about a 1/16th of an inch smaller than the flare
- Scuff up the paint on the fender (where the flare will be attached to)
- Clean up to the blue tape line with alcohol - I used rubbing alcohol but I think vodka would work!
- Scuff up the top 1 1/2 inches of the flare.
- Clean the inside of the flare 2 inches from the top of the flare
- Caulk the holes so there is some in the hole (ignore this)
- Put on the silicone - 3 or 4 passes building up a triangular fill so that their should be a 1" strip on the flare and on the fender
- Screw on the flare (the screws on the flare lip)
- Put the flare on and tape it on where you want it to stay (except if you have a hybrid - half mall crawler/half hard core wheeler - man I don't know how he keeps from denting his truck!!! But there was soooo much wax and tire polish that noting would stick so JD was kind enough to hold on
.)
After the silicone is cured - pull off the blue tape
I have put them through their paces and those things are not coming off by any trail riding yet, I think I should be able to pull em off (fishing line) if I need to.
This work was done to BrandonH's truck - he tore his flares off at MDR race while he was prancing on his 35s on very clean Walker Evans beadlocks!
Also had to do the BearsFan07 All Pro bumper cutout - I think he should be set.
(We also put some 4" Camburg spindles on JDKeller's PreRunner - Man! That thing is on stilts!!! :eek:
Oh yeah - put on my other Camburg UCA and new hardware. And a set of these puppies...
And some KM2s)
UPDATE: You really don't need the blue tape. The silicone cleans up right off of the truck just using a soft cloth - on the last truck that I did, I just sacraficed a micro fiber cloth.
(sorry for the shitty pics! - If someone else does this mod, could your redeem me with some good pics! :o
I have cured mine with black silicone IIRC GE from Home Depot (caulking gun cartridge)
- Blue tape an outline about a 1/16th of an inch smaller than the flare
- Scuff up the paint on the fender (where the flare will be attached to)
- Clean up to the blue tape line with alcohol - I used rubbing alcohol but I think vodka would work!
- Scuff up the top 1 1/2 inches of the flare.
- Clean the inside of the flare 2 inches from the top of the flare
- Caulk the holes so there is some in the hole (ignore this)
- Put on the silicone - 3 or 4 passes building up a triangular fill so that their should be a 1" strip on the flare and on the fender
- Screw on the flare (the screws on the flare lip)
- Put the flare on and tape it on where you want it to stay (except if you have a hybrid - half mall crawler/half hard core wheeler - man I don't know how he keeps from denting his truck!!! But there was soooo much wax and tire polish that noting would stick so JD was kind enough to hold on
.)
After the silicone is cured - pull off the blue tape
I have put them through their paces and those things are not coming off by any trail riding yet, I think I should be able to pull em off (fishing line) if I need to.
This work was done to BrandonH's truck - he tore his flares off at MDR race while he was prancing on his 35s on very clean Walker Evans beadlocks!
Also had to do the BearsFan07 All Pro bumper cutout - I think he should be set.
(We also put some 4" Camburg spindles on JDKeller's PreRunner - Man! That thing is on stilts!!! :eek:
Oh yeah - put on my other Camburg UCA and new hardware. And a set of these puppies...
And some KM2s)
UPDATE: You really don't need the blue tape. The silicone cleans up right off of the truck just using a soft cloth - on the last truck that I did, I just sacraficed a micro fiber cloth.
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