Driving through Louisiana recently (SR190) we lost the large mud flap from the back of our coach, so I recommend you check yours .
Foretravel has these in two heights, so I don't know which size to buy. Can someone please measure theirs and let me know that height measurement?
Thanks, Royce
Royce,
My flap is 9.5" tall and hangs 3.5" above pavement.
Dave
We have added redundant hangers on our big wide mud flap. Flap is heavy and movement wears the hangers and a drop on one side will likely totally damage the flap. Someone could get hurt and we could have a liability if it comes off onto a following vehicle.
13 3/4 inches. Funny, I just spent the last two days refastening the mud flap. The steel support spanning the length of the flap was bent. From this support the flap is hung or was hung very tightly with a single open/close screw link, one for each side or end. Considerable wear is noticed in the holes, in the steel as they are very close to the edge. The inability of this attachment to be somewhat flexible left me to use 2 small shackles and one chain link for each side.
The result was a slightly lower mud flap ( by about an inch) with much more ability to swing freely.
I have noticed the tow car is protected by the mud flap. I have also noticed that traveling uneven ground at low speed, even parking where not completely level will have the mud flap touching the ground and be swung under. Hopefully the new attachments will permit this without bending the steel support bar.
I replaced mine with 1/2 inch clevis connectors. Seem to be more durable and still swing freely.
We swing our mud flap up and keep it horizontal if leveling will lower the rear so much that the mud flap could touch the ground and be smooshed and damaged. Also nice to keep it off the ground when parked to keep critters from using the mud flap as a ramp into the motorhome. We installed eye bolts through mud flap and use a chain with end hooks over tow hitch to hold up mud flap. We store the lift-up chain in the engine compartment for quick access between use.
Our coach came with a "hula skirt" flap, rather than a solid flap. It has functioned well. We have towed vehicles for over 70K miles without any evidence of significant damage from debris.
Dear Barry and Cindy
Next, as in the next couple of days, my project is to copy the mud flap support you showed me one time. Did you use two eye bolt connection points or did you place a third in the middle? Do you have a metal bar along the flap bottom between the eye bolts?
(If you are a new reader to this....when we level, the mud flap can be down in the dirt, even pushed down by the coach leveling, so I want to raise the flap for when we level the flap is not on the ground.)
I have seen an alternate system by a nice fellow named John I met April in Fredericksburg, Tx (not know his last name or Forum handle). He used a metal bar about a quarter inch square I guess, then bent in into a U, and places that U over the tow hitch bar, to hang down, then bent toward the front of the coach two "fingers" that are down below the tow hitch. He raises the flap up parallel to the ground and then slides the fingers under the mud flap. The only support to hold the flap up is thus in the middle of the flap. Wow...bet you cannot picture my description! (Davis Bentley has built the same thing)
mike
So glad that this post has come up.
I have been holding off on pulling the trigger on a new mud flap. I would rather ours said Foretravel in back instead of unihome. Is the chrome FORETRAVEL "plate" that goes on the flap expensive?
I would LOVE to see some other examples of rear FT flaps. This forum has some REALY creative people on it and I would like to " go big" on the renovation as long as I'm doing it.
It's also held on by two hose clamps so maybe chain would be better.
This is our flap with the coach level, looks like Brett replaced it at one time. Can't tell how it's affixed, but it's around 8" off the ground. The flaps just behind the duals seem to work perfect before the big flap is needed. ^.^d
We made ours from rubber belting from half inch grain elevator belt. We then took a stainless steel table top, cut it with a plasma cutter, found a local welder that did design cutting. We took her a picture of the foretravel logo that we wanted and she cut it in with a plasma cutter. Attached it with stainless steel bolts and half inch clevis connectors. Total cost about 30 bucks. Pictures on forum somewhere.
This is ours
About 2 yrs ago pulled into camp foretravel with one side dragging. The flap itself was not expensive, but the metal foretravel plate was, so I just bought the flap. The whole deal is easily damaged anyway. Fastened a piece of metal to the top of the flap with holes for screw hooks bolted to the metal bar that I had to replace as that was what came loose. It swings on the hooks.
Mine. I got it at FT for about 3/4 of a CB, installed.
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Here is another option
Standard Motorhome Flap with Custom Text | Duraflap (http://www.duraflap.com/product/standard-motorhome-flap-with-custom-text/)
Mike,
We put in two eye bolts that are about 12 - 18" apart on mud flap, each with a fender washer & nut on back side, fender washer on pretty side. Our chain has hooks on each end. I hook one end of chain to one eye bolt, pull mud flap horizontal, swing chain over tow hitch, and hook other side of chain to the other eye bolt. I store the chain in the engine compartment.
Eye bolts are not at bottom, but more centered top to bottom of mud flap. No metal bar, just the two fender washers to distribute the weight.
Our mud flap hangs down from 4 links that allow the mud flap to freely swing back and forth.
We raise mud flap with chain, before leveling when we see that the front is low on the HWH panel. Or before backing in if the ground will be higher than the front, causing the coach overhand to swing the mud flap forward while backing.
Barry
I am a little late getting back to this thread. Ours looks exactly like the one on Jeff and Sandy's coach. We were in Nacogdoches in April so I went to Foretravel and bought the parts. Total came to $317. Doesn't take but an hour to put it together.