Made my own Rear Mud Guards

[Crewchief227]

So, I had some free time, and no real wrenching to do, and I knew those mud guards couldn't be hard to make. They don't need to be of "hobby" grade plastic. All I needed was a template & some plastic. The template took some work, I had found a listing on Ebay that had a flat picture of the RPM ones. I kept scailing and printing till the holes lined up, cut it out exactly with an xacto knife, and held it up to the truck, no-go. Back to the drawing board I just had to bring it in where it met the hinge pin, also bottomed out the suspension while doing this for adequate clearance. Bam had my template.

The plastic? Well as luck would have it I have a ton of cat litter plastic tubs (you know the giant yellow ones), and happened to have two empty ones with black lids. I needed two as there is barely enough plastic to form them without them saying "Tidy Cat" on you car, not cool!?

Got the outline transferred, just flipping the template over for the other side. Used my dremel with a cutting disc, just roughly cutting out the shape. Using a course sanding drum on the dremel I got the shape refined, and used 220 grit sandpaper & a fine hobby file I got them nice and smoothed. Drilled the holes, put in 4 M3x10 button heads and done!

 

[arrmadillo]

Nice job, looks good!

 

[WoodiE]

Nicely done @Crewchief227

 

[jondilly1974]

So, I had some free time, and no real wrenching to do, and I knew those mud guards couldn't be hard to make. They don't need to be of "hobby" grade plastic. All I needed was a template & some plastic. The template took some work, I had found a listing on Ebay that had a flat picture of the RPM ones. I kept scailing and printing till the holes lined up, cut it out exactly with an xacto knife, and held it up to the truck, no-go. Back to the drawing board I just had to bring it in where it met the hinge pin, also bottomed out the suspension while doing this for adequate clearance. Bam had my template.

The plastic? Well as luck would have it I have a ton of cat litter plastic tubs (you know the giant yellow ones), and happened to have two empty ones with black lids. I needed two as there is barely enough plastic to form them without them saying "Tidy Cat" on you car, not cool!?

Got the outline transferred, just flipping the template over for the other side. Used my dremel with a cutting disc, just roughly cutting out the shape. Using a course sanding drum on the dremel I got the shape refined, and used 220 grit sandpaper & a fine hobby file I got them nice and smoothed. Drilled the holes, put in 4 M3x10 button heads and done!

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I have those lids too ??

 

[Notorious J]

Nice work @Crewchief227. Very clean and stock looking. Way to take the time to get it right.???

 

[joostin420]

Dang ?

 

[jschlosser0405]

Saw this post and figured I'd add to instead of making a new one even though its old. Here are some custom mud guards I just made out of .080" Kydex V.