Sauce
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Just installed the Rek Gen Trophy Sport Universal Mud Flaps. Definitely some modification involved but all pretty straightforward and I’m happy with how they turned out. I’m going to further modify them but 95% there. These are +25 offset wheels so I was getting a lot of splashing up the sides of the truck. Hopefully this helps keep things cleaner. Most of the mud flaps like the Ford and Musology didn’t come up as high as I wanted.
a few comments on the install.
1. Rek Gen assured me none of their flaps would fit the truck, but i took a chance with these and they worked fine. I would have preferred the Baja flaps and now that I’ve installed mine I’m pretty sure I could have gotten the Baja flaps to work (it may have actually been easier to fit them)
2. Test fit the flaps first and figure out how you want them to fit. Mark them and Then use a saw or dremel to trim the excess material BEFORE they are on the truck. I trimmed one on the truck and it made things 100x more difficult than it needed to be. If you have crash bars they will be in the way, so cut the flaps around the crash bars otherwise the flaps might rub tires or limit clearance
3. The clamp style brackets that come with the flaps are terrible. The engineering of them doesn’t make any sense. Throw them out. It also comes with U bracket clips that are much better but it doesn’t come with enough of them. I ordered more and will reinstall the back flaps with these where I originally used the crap brackets.
4. Use the U bracket clips aligned with the existing holes for the fender flares which are held by plastic clips that can be discarded.
5. For the back flaps I also drilled through the plastic wheel liner and added bolts through those. The front liners aren’t plastic so you can’t do that in front and need to rely on the exiting holes.
6. To drill holes in the flaps and align them with the existing fender flares holes I created a paper template on the truck and then laid it on top of the flaps to drill. Primitive but it worked.
hopefully this helps.
a few comments on the install.
1. Rek Gen assured me none of their flaps would fit the truck, but i took a chance with these and they worked fine. I would have preferred the Baja flaps and now that I’ve installed mine I’m pretty sure I could have gotten the Baja flaps to work (it may have actually been easier to fit them)
2. Test fit the flaps first and figure out how you want them to fit. Mark them and Then use a saw or dremel to trim the excess material BEFORE they are on the truck. I trimmed one on the truck and it made things 100x more difficult than it needed to be. If you have crash bars they will be in the way, so cut the flaps around the crash bars otherwise the flaps might rub tires or limit clearance
3. The clamp style brackets that come with the flaps are terrible. The engineering of them doesn’t make any sense. Throw them out. It also comes with U bracket clips that are much better but it doesn’t come with enough of them. I ordered more and will reinstall the back flaps with these where I originally used the crap brackets.
4. Use the U bracket clips aligned with the existing holes for the fender flares which are held by plastic clips that can be discarded.
5. For the back flaps I also drilled through the plastic wheel liner and added bolts through those. The front liners aren’t plastic so you can’t do that in front and need to rely on the exiting holes.
6. To drill holes in the flaps and align them with the existing fender flares holes I created a paper template on the truck and then laid it on top of the flaps to drill. Primitive but it worked.
hopefully this helps.
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