If you make reproductions a tip
Hi All
Rubber or Canvas mud flaps seems to be issue of when the truck was built, and were they ever replaced. My `42 Pat 13 C60S had rubber mud flaps while my `45 HUP had canvas front and rear.
In the process of my recent overhaul of the HUP I replaced the flaps with canvas copies of the originals. But I got the rear ones wrong they were neither stiff enough nor the canvas heavy enough. The result was that the air stream coming off the rear tires would fold them up were they would contact the tire resulting in a heavy thwack on the fender and very quick wear on the flaps.
My original canvas flaps have steel sewn into the middle and bottom in pockets. I copied these and sewed the flaps the same way so what I got wrong was the flaps were not stiff enough to be held down and not get caught by the air current off the tires.
For the next try I will try and use much stiffer canvas.
Cheers Phil
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