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After rebuilding my engine, power steering gear box, carb, all new vacuum lines, hoses, and many new parts, I'd like to keep them somewhat clean by replacing the torn or missing fender seals on both sides of the truck (item 027 and 028 below). The problem is these cost $33.47 and $44.53 each from the Specter Catalogue, not including fasteners, so it would cost about $180 including shipping for all this.

I know I can get suitable material and the fasteners at a hardware store, I'm just not sure I could cut it to fit worth a damn. If I knew the exact dimensions or had a trace that would help a lot. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this without dumping a lot of cash?

Thanks,

Matt
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I'm going to be doing this soon, too. I have one of the large pieces still on the truck and I will probably eyeball the second piece. I purchased a rubber diaphragm sheet material from orchard supply hardware. It's rubber with reinforcement (nylon strings, I think) embedded inside it.

Here's a thread from a mud member who was selling these at one time:

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=67925&highlight=rubber+fender
 
2mbb said:
I'm going to be doing this soon, too. I have one of the large pieces still on the truck and I will probably eyeball the second piece. I purchased a rubber diaphragm sheet material from orchard supply hardware. It's rubber with reinforcement (nylon strings, I think) embedded inside it.

Here's a thread from a mud member who was selling these at one time:

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=67925&highlight=rubber+fender
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Conveyer belt material works fine.
 
D'Animal said:
I assume this is for a 60?

I'm parting out my 84. I can trace them for you if you like.

PM me closer to this weekend when I'm home.
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Yes, these are for a 60. A trace would be great, but I'd also be happy to purchase them. It would be nice to have a trace posted somewhere so any Cruiser dude could DIY.

Thanks,

Matt
 
I would like a set or tracings as well. If you dont mind.

Thanks


Dynosoar:zilla:
 
Fender Seals = Semi Truck Mud Flap, Good scissors/cutter & small nylock nuts & bolts. Cost - not much. I've done that on 2 60's now. Bob
 
There was a thread a while back about this..I think I was asking the same question. There are a lot of inexpensive ways to do it. I opted for a piece of fabric mesh irrigation flex hose. It has been 2 years and 20K miles and everything is still in place. The other choice people have given you will work fine. There was a guy on my thread who has some rubber diamond plate stuff that looked really great. Good Luck.
 
For those of you feeling crafty, a fender skirt template:
The six images below can be assembled into a paper template of both fender skirt pieces. Because of the forum’s image size restrictions and out of file size concerns, the images are 600(w)x750(h) pixels. The images need to be rescaled or resized to 2400(w)x3000(h) pixels (8x10in) which will scale each image to fit on a piece of 8.5X11 paper. The rescaling can be done in most photoshop-like programs.

Once the images are rescaled, they can be printed out and aligned. There is enough overlap in each image that the eye-holes overlap between images.

If this is overly complex, confusing, or simply more effort than it is worth let me know and I will yank the images and delete my response.

Unless the driver side pair is different, this should work for both

First three:
1)
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2)
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3)
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mine are buggered but im not buying them off toyota,conveyer belt rubber will be much thicker and the holes are allready in the body for them,i'll be using bolts and nuts with large washers,this is one of them things easily replaced by improved on by the owner.
cheers goldchaser
 
wobble said:
For those of you feeling crafty, a fender skirt template:
The six images below can be assembled into a paper template of both fender skirt pieces. Because of the forum’s image size restrictions and out of file size concerns, the images are 600(w)x750(h) pixels. The images need to be rescaled or resized to 2400(w)x3000(h) pixels (8x10in) which will scale each image to fit on a piece of 8.5X11 paper. The rescaling can be done in most photoshop-like programs.

Once the images are rescaled, they can be printed out and aligned. There is enough overlap in each image that the eye-holes overlap between images.

If this is overly complex, confusing, or simply more effort than it is worth let me know and I will yank the images and delete my response.

Unless the driver side pair is different, this should work for both
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No, I got it. I think. Thanks.
wait-what.webp
 
Was just thinking, do they have to be a 2 piece design? Maybe on the drivers side to get around the ps box.......
 
I used this template and some shower pan liner from the Home Depot. It worked really well I cut the material with a new (sharp) blade. I will try to post some pics later

Dynosoar:zilla:
 
Attachments are'nt working...would love to fix up a set of these.
 
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