Bloody mudflap brackets!

ruckus Veteran Volks Folk

2,118 posts · joined Jun 2004 · 18 May 2005, 8:43 pm

#358709

I've got some Empi mudflaps that I want to fit to my 71 standard bug. They didn't come with brackets but I thought "Ah she'll be right, they'll be easy to find!"

Wrong! This is really starting to sh#t me because I don't have the time to fabricate them myself and I thought I'd solved the problem when I bought some brackets from someone only to find they don't even appear to fit the mudflaps I had to buy them with to get them !😠

Anyway so what can I do? Is it possible to just buy the right brackets from a shop or something?

[Edited on 18/5/2005 by ruckus]

ruckus Veteran Volks Folk

2,118 posts · joined Jun 2004 · 22 May 2005, 2:59 pm

#360438

:cussing

Adam_C Custom Title Time!

1,180 posts · joined May 2003 · 22 May 2005, 7:15 pm

#360561

try bunnings, its what costa did 😉

Adam
Adzslick@iprimus.com.au

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 May 2005, 8:54 pm

#360624

I bought the NOS Mud flaps too......
Brackets were too expensive.....

Go to a BIG W store.... or K Mart Maybe etc....

in the Door knobs & hooks etc You will find some 90 degree
Cadmium plated brackets.... just flat steel, but nice & shiney,
there are different sizes... the size I used....

was : 25mm wide approx 3mm thick and each side roughly 255mm long ... bracket is shaped like an "L"

I used a piece of thin aluminium to bolt to the bracket and to bolt to the mud flaps....

Any more info..... just ask....

Lee

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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 May 2005, 9:03 pm

#360628

the piece of sheet metal is 6 inches high and 7 inches wide...

and My flaps are 4 inches from the ground... at the moment...
the car should settle down another inch or so...[i'm hoping]

the smalls screws attaching the mud flaps to the metal were
about 5 or 6mm x 20mm long with a flat washer either side and a spring washer under the nuts....

cheers

LEE

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ruckus Veteran Volks Folk

2,118 posts · joined Jun 2004 · 1 Jun 2005, 5:42 pm

#365710

Thanks Lee. Big help.

ruckus Veteran Volks Folk

2,118 posts · joined Jun 2004 · 4 Jun 2005, 2:26 pm

#367208

Turns out I can't put them on because of my exhaust anyway :blush