BogMonster Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I need some quick release rear mudflaps for my 110 - i.e. something I can take off and on in less than a minute preferably without tools! The reason is that I have two different requirements: 1) Towing a trailer on gravel roads, which as anybody who has tried it will know, you need mudflaps on the back of the vehicle otherwise with mud-terrain tyres on you will lose all the windows in the back of the vehicle VERY quickly as rocks fly up from the tyres, ping off the trailer body and tinkle.... £100 plus of glass chippings in the back. 2) Off road for which I am already sick of mudflaps having trashed the bracket and bent the rear side panel again yesterday just dropping gently into a steep ditch The standard rear mudflap bracket is just bolted on the outside to the thin alloy bodyside panel on a 110 and is very vulnerable to damage as 110 owners will know. My idea is to make a stronger bracket which sits higher up (inside the bodywork) and have some sort of quick-release system (yet to be determined - maybe pins and R clips or something, any other ideas?) so I can pop the mudflaps on and off as the requirement dictates. Just wondered if anybody else has done this and if so could you post up a pic in case it gives me an idea. Most people here just take the mudflaps off (as I used to do on the old 90's) but at the moment I need something quickly removable for the reasons above. Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I need some quick release rear mudflaps for my 110 - i.e. something I can take off and on in less than a minute preferably without tools!The reason is that I have two different requirements: 1) Towing a trailer on gravel roads, which as anybody who has tried it will know, you need mudflaps on the back of the vehicle otherwise with mud-terrain tyres on you will lose all the windows in the back of the vehicle VERY quickly as rocks fly up from the tyres, ping off the trailer body and tinkle.... £100 plus of glass chippings in the back. 2) Off road for which I am already sick of mudflaps having trashed the bracket and bent the rear side panel again yesterday just dropping gently into a steep ditch The standard rear mudflap bracket is just bolted on the outside to the thin alloy bodyside panel on a 110 and is very vulnerable to damage as 110 owners will know. My idea is to make a stronger bracket which sits higher up (inside the bodywork) and have some sort of quick-release system (yet to be determined - maybe pins and R clips or something, any other ideas?) so I can pop the mudflaps on and off as the requirement dictates. Just wondered if anybody else has done this and if so could you post up a pic in case it gives me an idea. Most people here just take the mudflaps off (as I used to do on the old 90's) but at the moment I need something quickly removable for the reasons above. Ta Easiest solution would probably be a chain or something to pull the mudflaps up and out of harms way when offroading. Alternatively, a friend of mine added a full width hinge between the brackets and mudflaps. When offroading he just has to pull the pin out of the hinge, and the flaps come off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrfarmer Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 hi i use 2 8mm bolts thro the rear x member with wing nuts to hold the mud flaps on Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 Easiest solution would probably be a chain or something to pull the mudflaps up and out of harms way when offroading.Alternatively, a friend of mine added a full width hinge between the brackets and mudflaps. When offroading he just has to pull the pin out of the hinge, and the flaps come off. It's the brackets rather than the flaps that get trashed on a 110 though, so some new brackets tucked up further are a must to avoid trashing the bodywork when the bracket gets torn off. I too have seen people that tie them up out of the way with bungees or whatever, to avoid the classic "reverse over a grass bog and rip the flap off" problem! I like the hinge pin idea though, I might work on that Tim is yours a 90 or a 110 though? mudflaps are further forwards on a 110, not on the crossmember like a 90. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 What about using some anti-luce fasteners? It's not something I've tried myself but I'd think a couple of the smaller 10mm fasteners for each mud-flap would work ok and be very easy to release, which would be important given their proposed location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 I had to look that up on Google... Good idea but I think they would probably fall off - the roads here are pretty rough. I would probably spend much of the time with them fitted and take them off for off-road trips, rather than only fitting them when the trailer was on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alantd Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 People have fitted piano hinges, which allow full articulation. The weight of the rubber keeps them in place under normal/fast (sic) driving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil00001 Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 How about these: Cheers, Neil http://kurveygirl.com/shop/product_info.ph...19561b3638c18dd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shox Dr Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 This is a link to a thread where I built some with stainless steel hinges. I haven't done it, but it wouldn't take much to make a hinge pin that could be removed, or as someone else says, fold them back to a fixing on the rear tub http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=20492&hl= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmgemini Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I filled the rear wheel arch in on the inside with alli. Then I bought some of the plastic boy racer/rally mudflaps and fitted those.Mine are quite a way forward. Here we go. Some pics. http://www.landroveraddict.com/smf/index.php?topic=340175.0 Third post down. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 Thanks, looks interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lrfarmer Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Tim is yours a 90 or a 110 though? mudflaps are further forwards on a 110, not on the crossmember like a 90. yes mine is a 90 but it would work on a 110 but you'd need much bigger mudflaps to take into acount them being ferther away, my old 110 hicap thay were on the rear x member Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthdicky Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I used pins and R clips before I got rid of the brackets altogether - it works okay but they're fiddly to get in and out especially when the mudflap is covered in muck. If you want something really easy I'd suggest finding another solution! Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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