Mudflaps wire in Canvas?

[Bob Carriere]

Small dia. steel cable for 1500 to 2000 winches...???? available at Princess Auto..... I believe it may also be available in Stainless Steel for boating application but will be more expensive......

Harry.....what vehicle are the flaps from....?

Bob

[universalgrl]

you could also try flight control cable as a stiffener for the mud flaps. 19 x19 is to flexable. I forget what the other strand type is but it is less flexable and probally work very well.

[Harry Moon]

Harry.....what vehicle are the flaps from....?

The ones in the pictures are off of my 20CWT trailer, but they look to be the same as the scraps left on 3 or 4 front fenders of my CMP's. same width, material and folds and stitching at least for the top 2 inches that survived under the metal strip that covered them on the inside of the fender.
I'm assuming it's the common design for mudflaps. Had no remnants on the rear of any CMP I've poked around lately so I can't check.

[Private_collector]

So is this design, with the wire reinforcing, the standard manufacture?

It's very handy for me that this thread started, as I am soon wanting to get a set made for myself. Have seen two restored vehicles here in Australia that have canvas mudflaps, but they both were a simple canvas sewn through diagonally from corner to corner. Those did not have wire inside. They couldn't have because of the sewing pattern.

Is this the style I should be having for a 1942 Ford CMP?
Mudflap design.jpg
Up until this thread, I was intending to only put a flat aluminium bar across top & bottom inside the canvas cover, as per the above photo I took at Canungra 2011.

[Harry Moon]

I intend to make new ones so I'll post pictures as I copy this one.

[rob love]

I would not call this mudflap "standard" but rather a variation. I have seen the mudflaps in canvas with metal strip insert sewn inside, as well as all canvas with metal strips rivetted to the outside. Both were lacking this wire rope framework.

[Harry Moon]

Can't really tell what the other remnants that were on CMP's were like as only the top couple of inches remained behind the metal plate. These are from a trailer built in 45.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

I have seen the mudflaps in canvas with metal strip insert sewn inside, as well as all canvas with metal strips rivetted to the outside. Both were lacking this wire rope framework.

My 1943 F15A has the latter type mud-flaps. Didn’t know these are originals.

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