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Subject:Re: Installing Mud Flaps
From:Stuart MacMillan
Date:Mon, 12 Jul 1999 08:09:30 -0700

You can't get at that screw, and it isn't necessary.  You can install
your new flaps easily from the out side with a 10 cent trim fastener.

When I installed my replacement flaps, I just pulled off the old one
(only had one flap, and it was on the driver's side) and the screw fell
away inside the pillar.   Then I went to my FLAPS (pun intended) and
found a suitable barbed plastic trim fastener about an inch long with a
barb diameter that would fit snugly into the hole.  My replacement flaps
were used, so I enlarged the hole a bit with a drill bit to allow for a
tight force-fit of the fastener's head and added some glue for good
measure. With new flaps you will have to mark where the fasten should go
and drill a hole.

Then I attached the flap and pushed the barbed fastener into the hole.
Voila!

This has worked beautifully  for about 5 years now.

> Paul Travassos wrote:
>
> What I want to know before I rip my van apart is how do you get at the
> screws from the inside of the van because it looks impossible. For
> example, the location of the front driver's mudflap seems to be
> right at the interface between the kitchen unit and the driver's seat
> platform.

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Stuart MacMillan
Manager, Case Program
800-909-8244 ext 208

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