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    Posted: 18 Feb 2011 at 10:30pm
I have a Hood River Edition that despertaly needs mudflaps - the wheels spray all the way to the roof - anyone have any experience adding mudflaps?
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Feb 2011 at 11:05pm
 I bought a rubber mud flap for a trailer or farm truck at a farm store. One flap was big enough for both sides. I used a 1 inch piece of aluminum with four holes drilled through it to hold the mud flap to the fender. I also used panhead screws with cap nuts to hold everything in place. I placed the screws with the head against the aluminum that was against the rubber mud flap that was against the inside of the fender with the cap nuts on the outside of the fender. There is plenty of space between the tire and the screw heads that have a low profile and the cap nut (acorn nut) is a nice finish on the outside of the fender.
 I choose rubber over a hard plastic mud flap because the rubber will flex if something hits it where I was afraid that the hard plastic mud flap might do damage to the fender if something was to hit it.
 Good luck and I hope that this helps.      Goose
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Feb 2011 at 8:13am
I installed 4 rubber mud flaps.  I found that the tires would throw spray forward also, which would coat the front sides and the steps.  I chose shorter flaps for the forward portion so that if the flaps were to bend backward in the wind they would not contact the tires.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Feb 2011 at 10:02am
   We posted our fender mods,we used aluminum we bought from a sign company and cut to size at home. We have not been through rain or mud so do not how well they will work. But I think they will do fine, they are more of a mud guard than a mud flap. My Uncle called them fender extenders. It is different but I don't think they look that bad.       David and Danette
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